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Quotes About Balance

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
~ Denis Diderot
Maximize that which gives you joy: friends, hobbies, religion, etc
~ Dennis Prager
Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.
~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Religion is as healthy and normal as life itself.
~ Charles Fletcher Dole
Yoga is not a religion to me.
~ Christy Turlington
Three things are good in little measure and evil in large: yeast salt and hesitation.
~ The Talmud
I'm half way to Heaven and half way to Hell with each breath I take in this mortal shell.
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
But without wisdom, imagination is like a cruel taskmaster.
~ William Paul Young
Day and NightThe night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
Saying of the ProphetTasksWhoever makes all his tasks one task, God will help him in his other concerns.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists.
~ Yann Martel, Life of Pi
[E]very heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it.
~ John R.W. Stott
After your daily bread, if you ask God for anything, ask 'him' to make you right in the head.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
A good portfolio is more than a long list of good stocks and bonds. It is a balanced whole, providing the investor with protections and opportunities with respect to a wide range of contingencies.
~ Harry Markowitz
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.
~ Luther Standing Bear
You are a guest of nature - behave.
~ Friedensreich Hundertwasser
There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.
~ Dorothy Height
What goes around, comes around.
~ Willie Nelson
Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.
~ Saadi
Discipline for me is about respect. It's not even about self-respect; it's about respect for life and all it offers.
~ Robert Downey, Jr.
The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally.
~ Teresa Mummert
No man is greater than his respect for sleep.
~ Ogden Nash