Quotes About Balance

Don't lose your happiness on the pursuit for more

The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Justice is happiness according to virtue.

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness

We can't have happiness if we cause others unhappiness.

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.

That cotton trade was almost the deal breaker for me. It was at that point that I said, "Mr. Stupid, why risk everything on one trade? Why not make your life a pursuit of happiness rather than pain?

I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.

unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.

True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish.

The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.

The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more in the Self.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.