Quotes About Balance

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

Life isn't fair, but government must be.

The balance in your life is more important than the balance in your checking account.

We must first give to life if we expect life to give anything in return. This is the divine law.

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.

I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change

Take heed when you think you stand, lest you fall. In this life you can fall from any level.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

When you spend your life in a creative mode all the time mindless leaf blowing can be a welcome break.

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.

Daily life shouldn't be a fashion show all the time.

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.

Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.

Quit saying you don't have time. You have time for what you make time for in life.

Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity.

Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

I was happier before, when I lead a normal life.

Some people have learned to earn well but they haven't learned to live well.

Sometimes we are too polite with our suffering and allow it to dominate our life.

Only a warrior can survive the path of knowledge because the art of the warrior is to balance the pain of being a man with the wonder of being a man.