Quotes About Balance

There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me

Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.' 

She says I ought to throw out at least two books for every one I buy. I had new bookshelves put up in the cottage after moving in, but already the to-be-read pile is mounting on to floor of the spare room.

If you can get today's work done today, but you do it in such a way that you can't possibly get tomorrow's work done tomorrow, then you lose.

It's more than a little ironic that many of us preach safety first to our children, nieces, and nephews but in our roles as programmers scream for freedom, a hybrid of the Wild West gunslinger and teenage driver. Give us freedom, give us the resources, and watch us fly.

you can do a couple of days a week, then do something else. It's a bit like being an athlete. You have to keep fit and nimble.

Even if the tutoring was only for one hour a day, he told his mother, 'I shall feel that I have got to be back at a certain time and it would hang like a dark shadow over my pleasure'.

We are all parasites; we humans, the greatest.

The analysis of man discloses three chemical elements — a job, a meal and a woman.

Hormones, vitamines, stimulants and depressives are oils upon the creaky machinery of life. Principal item, however, is the machinery.

Our moral theorists seem never content with the normal. Why must it always be a contest between fornication, obesity and laziness, and celibacy, fasting and hard labor?

Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.

Even a world leader only has 24 hours in a day!

E. O. Wilson, one of the world's most distinguished ecologists, certainly its most eloquent: 'At the heart of the environmentalist world view is the conviction that human physical and spiritual health depends on the planet Earth … Natural ecosystems – forests, coral reefs, marine blue waters – maintain the world as we would wish it to be maintained. Our body and our mind evolved to live in this particular planetary environment and no other.

i dont live to eat i eat to live

In general, we hang things—paintings, posters, mirrors—at the height where we best appreciate them. A painting is always slightly higher than the direct approach. We hang mirrors in such a way that we take in our faces, hair, neck and shoulders.

Thou fastest every day," said the Prophet, "and keepest vigil every night in prayer." "Yea, that indeed I do," said 'Uthrnan, for he had heard him speak again and again of the merits of fasting and of night prayer. "Do not so," said the Prophet, "for verily thine eyes have their rights over thee, and thy body hath its rights, and thy family have their rights, So pray, and sleep, and fast, and break fast."!

British constitutional practice works by holding governmental institutions and practices in a relationship of mutual tension.

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side and it tumbles over on the other.

Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men