Quotes About Balance

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best both for the body and the mind.

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

Life is a yo-yo, and mankind ties knots in the string

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

So, often in the course Of life's few fleeting years, A single pleasure costs The soul a thousand tears.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

The best thing you've ever done for me¦is to help me take my life less seriously¦cuz its only life after all¦

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Three things are needed for a good life, good friends, good food, and good song.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Plan out your life on paper but live your life by your heart.

To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly.