Quotes About Balance

In my opinion the hectic and almost frantic pace of modern living is a clear sign of the fear we have of being and of life. And as long as this fear exists in a person's unconscious, he will run faster and do more so as not to feel his fear.

What happened to me is that as I grew up, I found that I was smart. My mother had insisted on that you see. Oh, but I loved to play ball. I loved the physical aspect. So you have one leg in one field, and one leg in the other and you're nowhere.

If the ego is inflated it must be gradually deflated.

The effect of tea is cooling and as a beverage it is most suitable. It is especially fitting for persons of self-restraint and inner worth.

Sometimes it's more generous to take than give, he said. "How?" Caroline asked. "To let the other person give you what he has to offer. If you're always the one giving, you never have to feel disappointed, because you don't expect anything in return. But it's miserly in its own way. Because you never leave yourself open or give the other person a chance.

Sometimes you have to act a little crazy just to stay sane.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Gaia—which in Greek means "the earth.

To maintain power requires justice and intelligence as well as force.

how do we pass from chaos to "cosmos": from disorder to the perfect and just regimen of a magnificently ordained natural dispensation upon which the sun gently shines?

Keep to moderation, keep the end in view, follow nature.

As I continued letting my right hand know what my left hand was doing (and vice versa), I could feel the split within me begin to heal. The conscious and unconscious, the rational and intuitive, the thinking and feeling sides of my inner world began to embrace each other. In times of inner conflict, I turned to this wondrous process. It always brought clarity and insight. It always left me feeling better.

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.

Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness . . . but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that is good taste.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is wholesome, and so it is in wine.... We ought not indulge too often, for fear the mind contract a bad habit, yet it is right to draw it toward elation and release and to banish dull sobriety for a little.