Quotes About Balance

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

Wisdom and freedom require the ability to allow the natural flow of emotions to come and go, experiencing emotions but not being controlled by emotions. Always having to prevent or suppress emotions is a form of being controlled by emotions.

With every choice you make, be conscious of what need it serves.

The one who knows when to stop, is free from the dangers of desire, and lives a long and happy life.

We should love our friends, but not so much that it encroaches upon our love of God, which must be primary.

Though not often discussed, there is a split of sorts in the meditating world—namely, between concentration and mindfulness techniques.

Our quest for a successful outcome may end up doing more harm than good to our organizations, our families, and ourselves.

What's more important? Your company or your life?" It was a rhetorical question. I was warning him that, stripped of his identity at the top of a sixty-thousand-employee organization, he was vulnerable to boredom, dislocation, depression. I'd seen it before in ex-CEOs who didn't prepare well for their corporate exit. It would be "irresponsible" if he didn't create a new identity for himself.

As a rule, successful human beings tend to overweight our own strengths—and underweight our own weaknesses when evaluating others.

Did I do my best to be happy? • Did I do my best to find meaning? • Did I do my best to have a healthy diet? • Did I do my best to be a good husband?

We think we are in sync with our environment, but actually it's at war with us.

If we do not create and control our environment, our environment creates and controls us.

No one expects you to act on every piece of advice.

We're thinking too much about educating the mind, and forgetting about the heart and soul.

We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the planet has been around for about five billion years, and Homo sapiens for perhaps one hundred thousand. We have acquired an arrogance about ourselves that I find frightening. We have come to feel that we are so far apart from the rest of nature that we have but to command.

Tell me something in your native woodland language.

I am intrigued by writers who garden and gardeners who write. The pen and the trowel are not interchangeable, but seem often linked.

She wanted to think through the questions of faith herself, and she held fast to the belief that heaven on Earth would always outweigh heaven above.

Try seeing your world and yourself this way, eyes open to whatever is before you, mind free of dichotomies. Are you good or bad, fragile or tough, wise or foolish? Yes. And so am I.

There's a fine line between funny and annoying – and it's exactly the width of a quotation mark.

Be careful what you wish for is a very useful adage in all things magical.

Graveyards are needed before churches.