Quotes About Balance

We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

One of the first essentials in securing a good-natured equanimity is not to expect too much of the people amongst whom you dwell.

Imperturbability means coolness and presence of mind under all circumstances, calmness amid storm, clearness of judgment in moments of grave peril, immobility, impassiveness, or, to use an old and expressive word, phlegm.

The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.

A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.

Have a care therefore where there is more sail than ballast.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Authority is for Children and Servants; yet not without Sweetness.

All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort.

But if all of the evil in the world makes you think that there might be a devil, Chris, how do you account for all the good?

downside of the team approach is that there may be a conflict between the schedules of your senior attorneys and you. If the senior attorneys on the team prefer to stay late and work late, you'll have to match your schedule to theirs. If they like to work early and leave early, you'll be expected to do the same – because if work schedule differences arise, they'll be resolved in favor of the more senior attorneys, not you.

Ultimately, the wolves themselves made the reintroduction work.

In their confluence, these complex therapeutic skills may over time become a simpler way of being.

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.

two chief pitfalls into which the mystic is liable to fall--dreamy inactivity and Antinomianism.

Fill up the goblet, and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum....

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

The tension between the governed and the governing is what makes the world go 'round. It's not love, it's that tension, because that tension exists in love affairs. The whole idea of control is at the heart of human relationships. Control and resistance to control.

Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.

Let the punishment fit the crime.