Quotes About Balance

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From disorder, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Il faut tout simplifier autant que possible, mais pas plus

It is at last beginning to be realized that great wealth is not necessary for a happy and satisfactory life.

Everything should be kept as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.

REBT's Insight No. 1 holds that you have both healthy and unhealthy emotions

No social stability without individual stability.

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

Our civilisation being what it is, you've got to spent eight hours out of every twenty-four as a mixture between an imbecile and a sewing machine. It's very disagreeable, I know. It's humiliating and disgusting. But there you are. You've got to do it, otherwise the whole fabric of our world will fall to bits and we'll starve. Do the job then, idiotically and mechanically; and spend your leisure hours in being a real complete man or woman.

Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics is not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything will really do.

One can't have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson - paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east...

Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art.

Even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy. Yes even science.

She looked at Bernard with an expression of rapture, but of rapture in which there was no trace of agitation or excitement—for to be excited is still to be unsatisfied. Hers was the calm ecstasy of achieved consummation, the peace, not of mere vacant satiety and nothingness, but of balanced life, of energies at rest and in equilibrium. A rich and living peace.

Ustedes piensan primero en obtener la producción más grande posible en el menor tiempo posible. Nosotros pensamos primero en los seres humanos y en sus satisfacciones. El cambio de trabajo no es lo mejor para obtener una gran producción en pocos días. Pero a la mayoría de la gente le gusta más que hacer un solo trabajo toda la vida. Si se trata de elegir entre la eficiencia mecánica y la satisfacción humana, elegimos la satisfacción.