Quotes about Balance

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail. In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live.

The seasons and all their changes are in me.

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.

It is well to have some water in your neighborhood, to give buoyancy to and float the earth.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. There will be a wide margin for relaxation to his day. He is only earnest to secure the kernels of time, and does not exaggerate the value of the husk. Why should the hen set all day? She can lay but one egg, and besides she will not have picked up materials for a new one. Those who work much do not work hard.

Hard and steady and engrossing labor with the hands, especially out of doors, is invaluable to the literary man and serves him directly.

Man needs not only to be spiritualized, but naturalized.

We are more of the earth, Farther from heaven these days.

I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day;…so simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.