Quotes About Balance

For I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment. I did not want to surrender fierceness for a small gain in yardage. My wife married a man; I saw no reason why she should inherit a baby.

When a farm or a family is stricken, nature destroys what humankind has made. Houses peel and crumble. Tilled fields are subsumed by weeds and grasses. Well-tended orchards become knotted, spectral forests. The earth, given an opening, always reclaims itself and obliterates order—erasing the outward evidence of an agrarian society.

We think it is calm here, or that our storm is the right size.

The earth says have a place, be what that place requires; hear the sound the birds imply and see as deep as ridges go behind each other.

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why. If you do not have things right in your life you will be overwhelmed: you may be heroic, but you will not be wise. If you have things right in your life but do not know why, you are just lucky, and you will not move in the little ways that encourage good fortune.

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

If it is true that there is no fear (terror) in love, it is also true that there is no love without (reverent) fear.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.

Martin Luther's statement is often quoted, "I have so much to do that I must spend the first three hours in prayer.

But though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry, because I never undertake any more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit. JOHN WESLEY

How can we get what we really want and at the same time deal with the needs of others in our lives? Perhaps no human dilemma is more pervasive or challenging.

For every ounce of power you use, you need to add an ounce of conciliation. Let

If you drop one of us naked and alone into the wilderness, you've just fed the creatures of the local forest. But if you drop one hundred of us naked into the wilderness, you've introduced a new top predator to this unfortunate stretch of woods.

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

the body will always be more sophisticated than the mind

Mo?e wariaci to tacy ludzie, którzy wszystko widz? tak, jak jest, tylko uda?o im si? znale?? sposób ?eby z tym ?y?.

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

Even the mightiest oak can fall by a gentle touch

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

Once did she hold the gorgeous east in fee:And was the safeguard of the west.

Something between a hindrance and a help.

The world is too much with us.