Quotes About Balance

You can't be the hero all the time, Pino." "If you say so." "I do say so. You can't carry the world's problems on your back. You have to find some happiness in your life, and just do your best with the rest.

For many hours on that hill that day there was little sound save that of spring birds and insects, and a warm breeze carried the scent of fields under plow. It all made Pino realize that the earth did not know war, that nature would go on no matter what horror one man might inflict on another. Nature didn't care a bit about men and their need to kill and conquer.

You never want to be the absolute leader in the game of life, the man out front, the one everyone sees and looks to,

You never want to be the absolute leader in the game of life, the man out front, the one everyone sees and looks to," Leyers said.

You can't carry the world's problems on your back. You have to find some happiness in your life, and just do your best with the rest.

Peter Owen Jones really helped me to see how I can be both. I do not need to choose and I do not need to mix them either.

the two steps back (the falling) are as important as the three steps forward.

And my walking between two worlds (the Christian and the Druidic) loses any confusion in that place

Live simple, love well, and take time to smell the flowers along the way.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more - restful.

The rain is famous for falling on the just and unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust out doors I would drown him.

The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten

One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it

I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Put all your eggs in the one basket and—watch that basket.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed — in a modified way — 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance.

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

The proper proportions of a maxim: a minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.