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Quotes About Balance

The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
They say it's the responsibility of the media to look at government - especially the President - with a microscope. I don't argue with that, but when they use a proctoscope, it's going too far.
~ Richard M. Nixon
Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
~ Abraham Lincoln
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. (Don't overdo it.)
~ Lao-Tsze
In life you make the small decisions with your head and the big decisions with your heart.
~ Omid Kordestani
Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.
~ Amy Poehler
If you are willing to discipline yourself, the physical universe won't need to discipline you.
~ Leonard Orr
Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and humility.
~ Gary Snyder
Great design is serious, not solemn
~ Paula Scher
A great mind must be androgynous.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have a great husband, great parents and in-laws, and I have help with a nanny. It's not easy, but there are others who do it every day and don't have a high-profile job as I do.
~ Marlee Matlin
Finding the balance between body, mind and spirit is a great achievement.
~ Rickson Gracie
The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.
~ Catharine Beecher
The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We were contented to let things remain as the Great Spirit Chief made them. They were not; and would change the rivers and mountains if they did not suit them.
~ Chief Joseph
If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.
~ Vandana Shiva
Give a guy a girlfriend and a great job, he doesn't need therapy.
~ Larry David
The perfect life is the combination of great moments and bad ones, and under that point of view, my life is fantastic, because I've certainly hit more than one bump.
~ Alex Zanardi
I don't smoke, don't drink much, and go to the gym five times a week. I live a healthy lifestyle and feel great. I can run a marathon, you know.
~ Sarah Michelle Gellar
I've already done enough to have earned 'good driver,' so if I can be known as a great person and a good driver, that's better than only being a great driver.
~ Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.
~ Christopher Alexander
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
~ Seneca the Elder
In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable.
~ Benjamin Franklin
There is great freedom in simplicity of living.
~ Peace Pilgrim