Quotes About Balance

Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.

Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.

Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.

You got to have two things to win. You got to have brains and you got to have balls. Now you've got too much of one and not enough of the other.

Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

Live as though you'll die tomorrow, but farm as though you'll live forever.

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.

Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.

It's the secret to happiness, you know. Only take what you need.

Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don't necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

Following dharma puts you in a proper field of attention. In a proper field of attention, regardless of what your outer circumstances are, happiness will flow.

Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so.

I'd rather be happy than right.

Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

You create the happiness and the balance that you have, and your own power. This is one thing that I know to be true.

It didn't take long for the anger to put the happiness in a headlock.

Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.

It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering.

It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over.