Quotes About Balance

The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking ones self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous.

Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.

Being realistic doesn't require being self-deprecating, being serious all the time, or seeing things in a negative light.

Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them.

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

Just as light brightens darkness, discovering inner fulfillment can eliminate any disorder or discomfort. This is truly the key to creating balance and harmony in everything you do

Look after yourself, there is only one you. One life, make the most of it.

The one legged never stumble.

All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.

Imagination without study is the self-indulgence of the intellect.

We should always be realistic about our needs, steer clear of this over indulgence & self imposed poverty nonsense.

Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

There is a delicate balance of putting yourself last and not being a doormat and thinking of yourself first and not coming off as selfish, arrogant or bossy. We spend the majority of our lives attempting to perfect this balance.

All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.

The trick...is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.

Those who have conquered themselves...live in peace, alike in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, praise and blame...To such people a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same...Because they are impartial, they rise to great heights.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Self-pity is like chocolate; as you get older, you can only afford a little bit.

We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

It's really easy to give up all of those things important for self-preservation. You need to keep your sleep, exercise and retain good eating habits.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.