Quotes About Balance

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.

Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.

Without environmental sustainability, economic stability and social cohesion cannot be achieved

I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.

Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation.

The future will be green, or not at all

The immediate present belongs to the extremists, but the future belongs to the moderates.

We cannot interfere in one area of the ecosystem without paying due attention to both the consequences of such interference in other areas and to the well-being of future generations.

Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.

To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them

Focus on the future for 50%, on the present for 40%, and on the past for 10%

We often get so busy "sawing" (producing results) that we forget to "sharpen our saw" (maintain or increase our capacity to produce results in the future).

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.

When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.

If something is sustainable, it means we can go on doing it indefinitely. If it isn't, we can't

What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.