Quotes About Balance

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can't separate them. They're wedded.

Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene -- nine-tenths of it!

The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean -- when boredom seems the very stuff of life.

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

Managing is about nuance as much as it is about decisiveness.

Many of us are so busy texting and tweeting that we barely have time for meeting and musing. Where are we supposed to get the meaning?

to be a successful manager, let alone—dare I say—a great leader, maybe you don't have to be wonderful so much as more or less emotionally healthy and clearheaded.

By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course.

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men -- the balance wheel of the social machinery.

But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.

Respect is not a one way street

She is the gin. Cold, intoxicating. Gives you a rush, makes you warm inside, makes you lose your head. Take too much, it makes you sick and shuts you down. He is the coffee, hot, steaming, filtered. You have to add stuff to it to make it taste good. Grinds your stomach, makes you jittery, wired, and tense. Bad trip, keeps you up, burns you out. Coffee and gin don't mix, never do, everybody keeps trying and trying to make it taste good.

Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.

No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.

It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it.

Joy and Temperance and Repose Slam the door on the doctor's nose.

As unto the bow the cord is,So unto the man is woman,Though she bends him, she obeys him,Though she draws him, yet she follows,Useless each without the other!

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

Selfishness at the expense of others' happiness is demonism.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.