Quotes About Balance

You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise

Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.

Out of the chaos, the future emerges in harmony and beauty.

I totally think we have a future on the planet. I just think that we have to get away from Western thinking, which is very much founded on dualisms.

We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.

This is not my phrase, but if you're stuck in the past, then you're depressed. If you're stuck in the future, then you're anxious.

Understand suffering is a part of my karma, otherwise you will spoil your future karma also.

Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at some point we face catastrophe

The key to understanding the future is one word: sustainability.

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging, there is a simplicity that is crucial.

We are servants of Ma'at—order and justice. We don't kill our enemies for things they might do in the future.

Do that which will make you happiest both now and in the future.

Credit and debt keep us fixated on the past and the future.

I am strangely addicted to the writing of long letters, which, I am afraid, tire you; and for the future, I believe, I must be less communicative, in order to be less troublesome.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

when the picture is too close to your face you lose the sight, when the future is too close to your face you see the light.

The smallest thing in its rightful place can lead to the highest goals.

When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.

Set your goals high; make friends with different kinds of people; enjoy simple pleasures. Stand on high ground; sit on level ground; walk on expansive ground.

The goal is not to simulate reality right now by going crazy. The goal is to prepare for reality by going slowly

Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.

Do not direct all your energies towards seeking pleasure but rather towards a sublime ideal. Your energies will then serve you and contribute to the realisation of your goal or ideal.