Quotes About Balance

What man calls civilization always results in deserts.

it wont be long now it wont be longman is making deserts of the earthit wont be long nowbefore man will have it used upso that nothing but antsand centipedes and scorpionscan find a living on it

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

A pessimist is a person who has to listen to too many optimists.

It is when we lose control that we repress the emotions, not when we are in control.

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all - to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be.

The prolonged solitary exposure to the bush that makes some people odd or crazy might in others bring the active and contemplative life into perfect harmony or grace.

I get started at 5:30 in the morning and write till 10 A.M. Then I hike six or seven miles before going back to work.

You can either love," Pablo says, "or you can talk about it. You can't do both.

Together, Ben and Chon make up a collective pacifist. Ben is the paci Chon is the fist.

Perhaps we're not the greater good, but we are the lesser of evils.

Your strengths are your weaknesses. The more you try to protect something, the more vulnerable you make it.

And then there are the Odysseans. They form the middle ground between Dionysians and Apollonians. They tend to fluctuate between action and despair, between feeling and thinking. Most people are Odysseans.

It is well to be simple once in a while.

The direct pursuit of happiness is a recipe for an unhappy life.

Common sense and education are highly compatible in fact, neither is worth much without the other.

Your Heavenly Father has designed you so that approximately one-third of your life should be spent asleep. He himself rested after creating the heavens and the earth (see Gen 2:2-3).

But nothing in human life is unmixed, and honors inevitably balance themselves with self-doubt. Everyone knows that medals are rubber

Everyone who concentrates all day, in the evening needs to let the half-wit out for a walk.

My job is defending the people and to hell with the laws. Your job is defending the laws and to hell with the people.

Man must learn that his current path is not suitable for Earth, and soon, Earth won't be suitable for Man.

The easiest way to combat greed is by recognizing the value of contentment and simplicity.