Quotes About Balance

In giving too much weight to prudence one doesn't make enough allowance for the possibility of good luck.

Si c'est la raison qui fait l'homme, c'est le sentiment qui le conduit.

How can you stand to do it? The poor little mouse! Grover shrugged. It's nature, he said. Nature likes the snake just as much as the mouse.

The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself any-more.

enough is all that a person of wisdom needs.

Two of the guards looked up at us and lost their balance and fell into the water. They grabbed hold of the loaded boats, which made the boats tip and dump their load into the river. The other guards and Looper knelt down and tried to reach them, but they were pulled in, too. In the midst of all this, the mayor jumped onto the one boat that was still upright, but as soon as he hit it, it turned over and he plunged into the river.

A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.

Could hell be described as too much of anything without a break? Are variety, moderation and balance instruments we use to keep us from boiling in any inferno of excess,' whether it be cheesecake or ravenous sex?

A right is nothing more than the other aspect of duty.

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.

I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity

Life is about work. Work is about life. And both are about people.

Sometimes your personal life is much more significant. Sometimes your work life is more significant. Friends and family, or sometimes the general population, take precedence.

Everyone knows how much Australia means to me. I try to get back here as much as I can, but normally it's for work, so I'm in and out and jetlagged and stressed.

Act without striving. Work without interfering. Find the flavour in what is flavourless.

Practice non-action. Work without doing.

The Tao of the sage is work without effort.

If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go.

People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.

We have to appreciate that we are part of nature, we must work with nature; the environment is our lifeline.

My older siblings and I all work in 'the industry'. So obviously we have hectic schedules, but we make it work.

I don't do fad things or diets - they don't work.

We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were instinctively violent, the world would end in no time.