Quotes About Balance

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

I find that I fall into two parts which roughly correspond to instinct and conscience. To use a figure, I might characterize both parts as writers. Neither one, as far as the simple daily calls of life go, is much of a success.

My trouble seems [. . .] to be to bring together in me the Puritanical iron hand of constraint and the gushes of pure wildness. One can't survive or write without both but they need to come to terms.

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

a feat which is not unlike tryin' to hold a large beach ball under water while doin' needlepoint

No one has ever died, from an overexposure to education.

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.

It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top.

You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.

I argued that physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong. Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable and call that the cause. But if the mood is right, then physical discomfort doesn't mean much.

But make no mistake: the weeds will win; nature bats last.

You don't have to choose between being scientific and being compassionate.

The creator is both detached and committed, free and yet ensnared, concerned but not too much so. If motivation is too strong the person is blinded if the objective situation is too tightly structured, the person sees none of its alternative possibilities.

The natural world was a tightly integrated web, and every time humans messed with it, there were as many unintended consequences as there were intentional. But that was a lesson nobody ever seemed to learn. Maybe

The natural world was a tightly integrated web, and every time humans messed with it, there were as many unintended consequences as there were intentional. But that was a lesson nobody ever seemed to learn.