Quotes about Balance
My tastes are aristocratic; my actions democratic.
— Victor Hugo
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
— Charles Dickens
What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.
— Aldous Huxley
Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
— St. Isidore of Seville
Today, well lived, will prepare me for both the pleasure and the pain of tomorrow.
— Anonymous
A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
— Samuel Johnson
The sun also shines on the wicked.
— Seneca
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.
— Anonymous
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
— Henry David Thoreau
Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.
— Corrie Ten Boom
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
— Epictetus
The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony by toningdown the sensitiveness of the feelings.
— William James