Balance
- All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth but error still. Truth lies between these extremes.--Richard Cecil
- 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.--Euripides
- Each one of us must face our own issues of balance, and the real key lies within your own hands. It is not someone else’s responsibility to manage your life, or to help create balance in your life. It is something you need to control.--Byron Pulsifer (The Hard Part Of Balance)
- Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.--Denis Waitley
- Expect the best, prepare for the worst and don't be surprised when you get what you deserve.--Lionel Goulet
- Few people do business well who do nothing else.--Lord Chesterfield
- For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Forgiveness is not much of a concept without something for which to forgive and be forgiven. Healing has no meaning in the absence of illness. Peace is no treasure at all to those who have known no war and no strife. Saying hello had no joy in it without the saying of good-bye.--Robert Benson (Between the Dreaming and the Coming True)
- Fortunate, indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.--Peter Latham
- Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.--Thomas Merton
- I believe in rainbows and all of that. But there are darker colors … and it's the shade that defines the light.--Tori Amos
- I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.--Kate Seredy (The Singing Tree)
- I make the most of all that comes,
And the least of all that goes.--Sara Teasdale
- If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could.--Orison Swett Marden
- If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire--then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.--Robert Fulghum
- If you spend too much time warming up, you'll miss the race. If you don't warm up at all, you may not finish the race.--Grand Heidrich
- If you want to condemn yourself for the mistakes you've made, let's be fair, that means you've got to congratulate yourself for all the good things you've done. It's okay to say, "God, I wish I'd done this; yeah, but I did do that." Then it kind of balances out.--Tim Allen
- In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.--Graham Greene
- In Italy under the Borgias they had thirty years of murder, bloodshed, and warfare, and they produced indigestible noodles, boring operas, and the Fiat. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The Swiss bank account, the best cheese in the world, and Heidi.--Gordon Bressack and Charles M. Howell IV
- It is not Justice the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune--the ally of patient Time--that holds an even and scrupulous balance.--Joseph Conrad (Lord Jim)
- It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.--Henry Ward Beecher
- Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.--Brian Tracy
- Learn to pause ... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.--Doug King
- Let us not look not back in anger, or forward with fear, but around in awareness.--James Thurber
- Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.--Thomas Paine
- A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.--Anne Morrow Lindberg
- Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it arises out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further developments.--Lewis Mumford ("The Way and the Life" The Conduct of Life)
- Only in silence the word,
only in dark the light,
only in dying life:
bright the hawk's flight
on the empty sky.--Ursula K. LeGuin (A Wizard of Earthsea)
- People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.--Stephenie Meyer (The Host)
- Put yourself in a position where you're making choices about your life, rather than letting other people make those choices for you. That's what balance is all about.--Liz Dolan
- Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.--Robert Louis Stevenson
- The really idle man get nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much farther.--Sir Heneage Ogilvie
- Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which.--Gary Ryan Blair (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)
- So few the grains of happiness
measured against all the dark
and still the scales balance.--Jane Hirshfield
- The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.--Indian Proverb
- Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.--Natalie Goldberg
- There is a time to take a stand and there is a time to take your leave.--Chip Ingram
- There is no such thing as balance. How I long for that sense of repose after a good day's work. Does anyone have it?--Naomi Thornton (in Working It Out by Ruddick & Daniels)
- There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.--Hazrat Inayat Khan
- There's a balance in my life, there's reality and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.--Olivia Newton-John
- To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least you can get by with. The maximum is the most you're capable of. The optimum is the amount or degree of anything that is most favorable toward the ends you desire.--Nido Qubein
- Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.--Helen Keller (The Story of My Life)
- The trick to juggling is determining which balls are made of rubber and which ones are made of glass.--Anonymous
- The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.--Dolly Parton
- We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.--Bern Williams
- We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives … not looking for flaws, but for potential.--Ellen Goodman
- A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.--William Arthur Ward
- What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter…a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.--Henri Matisse (Notes d'un Peintre)
- When we become isolated, we are prone to being damaged; our minds lose their flexibility and natural kindness; we become vulnerable to fear and negativity. The sense of belonging keeps you in balance amidst the inner and outer immensities. The ancient and eternal values of human life - truth, unity, goodness, justice, beauty, and love are all statements of belonging; they are also the secret intention and dream of human longing.--John O'Donohue (Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong)
- When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.--Kathleen A. Sutton
- While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.--Maya Angelou
- Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.--Eric Hoffer (The Passionate State of Mind)
- The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.--Carl Jung
- Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.--Orison Swett Marden
- The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.--Paul Valery
- You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.--James Thurber
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