Quotes About Balance

Don't get mad, get even.

In the nuclear age, superpowers make war like porcupines make love—carefully.

It is the very design of life to support life.

If you take all your meals seriously, none of them gets a chance to matter.

Keep a spirited Christian horse and a useful ethical donkey. But don't try to breed a mule.

Let us fast, then—whenever we see fit, and as strenuously as we should. But having gotten that exercise out of the way, let us eat. Festally, first of all, for life without occasions is not worth living. But ferially, too, for life is so much more than occasions, and its grand ordinariness must never go unsavored. But both ways let us eat with a glad good will, and with a conscience formed by considerations of excellence, not by fear of Ghosts.

So it is with blackberries. If you pull too hard, you may get the berry but you will lose the sweetness of it. On the other hand, if you leave it, it may be gone the next time you come by. Each person must find this point of equilibrium for himself.

Una persona no puede correr y aprender a la vez. Debe permanecer en un lugar durante un tiempo.

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.

Because humanity is part of nature, it should be no surprise that people act consistently with natural law. But for most of us, this is a new idea. In our culture we have been taught to ignore our relationship to nature, to treat nature simply as the stage or background that we use, adopt, tolerate, or oppose, as the case may be.

But yield who will to their separation,My object in living is to uniteMy avocation and my vocationAs my two eyes make one in sight.Only where love and need are one,And the work is play for mortal stakes,Is the deed ever really doneFor Heaven and the future's sakes.

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.

Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

All this is true, and if it were all, how beautiful, how touching, how glorious it would be. But it is not all. There is another side.

Humans often assumed symmetry and equality where none existed.

something he wanted to eat that might also plausibly support weight loss.

I'm living for giving the devil his due51

And remember, you can always want something you need but you don't need everything that you want.