Quotes About Balance

We doubt the importance of many virtues as long as we do not come across the contrary vice.

Depopulate and reforest ? first civilizing rule.

Each time you perform a positive action, it is like depositing money into your karmic bank account. Each time you do something hurtful or negative, it is like writing a check from that bank account. The goal is to build up as much karmic currency as possible in order to ensure your current and future lifetimes will be filled with positive, happy energy.

Happy who in his verse can gently steerFrom grave to light, from pleasant to severe.

No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

We ought to be able to combine opposites: the love of goodness with indifference to other people's opinions, a liking for work with indifference to fame, concern for our health with indifference to life.

The truth was that as my pocket had strengthened, my head had weakened.

Don't mistake passion and purpose for demagoguery. I choose emotion over apathy. Being completely rational is overrated.

I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that.

I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself too much.

Breathe and don't try to be perfect.

An inch of gold can't buy an inch of time

An inch of time is worth an inch of gold, An inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time.

I don't really believe in diets. I love food... If I deprive myself, I'm going to want it more. I snack on yogurt, raw cashews and cherry tomatoes.

Goals help you keep in perspective what's really important so you don't spend all of your time doing what seems urgent.

Listen twice as much as you talk and others will hear twice as much of what you say.

Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

a person acting selfishly is overly sanguine, and has too much blood; this is remedied by cutting down on meat, or by making small cuts into the veins to release blood.

All the discussions about flexi-time or dress-down Fridays or paternity leave only serve to mask the core issue, which is that certain job and career choices are fundamentally incompatible with being meaningfully engaged on a day-to-day basis with a young family.

Qigong is a way of being. Being soft, yet strong. Qigong is a way of breathing. Breathing deeply, yet calmly. Qigong is a way of standing. Alert, yet relaxed.