Quotes about Balance
Contentment is the equilibrium between the enjoyment of life now and the anticipation of what is to come.
- Priscilla Shirer
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
- William Hazlitt
If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.
- Wendell Berry
That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.
- Etty Hillesum
Life is really very simple. What we give out, we get back.
- Louise Hay
The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.
- Pablo Picasso
Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it.
- Oprah Winfrey
If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential.
- Henri Nouwen
Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.
- Dolly Parton
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change
- Jim Rohn
Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity.
- Walter Brueggemann