Quotes About Balance

People think it's the mind that drives us. It is the heart. The mind is a slave to the heart. So check the condition of the heart.

Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one

I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.

I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out.

The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.

Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain detached from whatever one is trying to achieve.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish, too much handling will spoil it.

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Taking the time to meditate is as important as taking the time to breathe. One pumps oxygen into the body, the other pumps peace into the mind.

It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions: but only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Happiness is a shadow of harmony; it follows harmony. There is no other way to be happy.

It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.

Every need brings in what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child.

I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.