Quotes about Balance

You end up sacrificing quality time with family and friends, and you end up sacrificing time with yourself. Often you even sacrifice your health.

Love can bring us happiness and peace as long as we love in such a way that we don't make a net to confine ourselves and others. We can tell the correct way to love because, when we love correctly, we don't create more suffering.

We need a small space where we can take care of our nervous system and restore our tranquility and peace.

You have two gardens: your own garden and that of your beloved. First, you have to take of your own garden and master the art of gardening.

The problem is not one of being wrong or right, but one of being more or less skillful.

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

I can give you the King's English and then I can take it to the street, but do both or do one and don't do one knowing only the street. That's going to hold you back because what comes out is going to impress people, and it will impress them negatively.

Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.

The mature and well-balanced man, standing firmly with both feet on the earth, who has never been lamed and broken an half-blinded by the scandal of life, is as such the existentially godless man.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.