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Quotes About Balance

Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours.
~ Swedish Proverb
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
~ Jules Renard
Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
~ St Thomas Aquinas
For a sickness, love is the healthiest
~ Euripides
Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.
~ Socrates
Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
~ Jonathan Swift
It was from an old friend who ¦ thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.
~ Charles Grodin
Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
~ Unknown
Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
~ Beverly Sills
You say to me - wards your affection's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long
~ Robert Herrick
A Native American grandfather talking to his young grandson tells the boy he has two wolves inside of him struggling with each other. The first is the wolf of peace, love and kindness. The other wolf is fear, greed and hatred. Which wolf will win, grandfather? asks the young boy. Whichever one I feed, is the reply.
~ Unknown
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Friendship is a prodigal, but love is a miser.
~ Proverb
Love is stronger than justice.
~ Sting
It's crazy, I'm thinking, just knowing that the world is round, And here I'm dancing on the ground Am I right-side-up or upside-down, And is this real or am I dreaming?
~ Dave Matthews Band
Give me love and work - these two only
~ William Morris
Love and reason keep little company together
~ William Shakespeare
There is time for work, and time for love. That leaves no other time
~ Coco Chanel
I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.
~ Arthur Miller
Love is the energizing elixir of the universe, the cause and effect of all harmonies.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional and common sense continual.
~ Robertson Davies
To be wise and love exceeds man's might.
~ William Shakespeare
Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.
~ Jonathan Swift