Quotes about Balance
When we seek our own pleasure as the ultimate good we place ourselves as the center of the universe. A fara or a man or a star has his place in the universe, but nothing created is the center.
- Madeleine L'Engle
It is only when we are fully rooted that we are really able to move.
- Madeleine L'Engle
It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep.
- Malcolm X
The most precious resource for businesspeople is not their time. It's their energy. Manage it well.
- Robin Sharma
The line between failure and success is so fine. . . that we are often on the line and do not know it.
- Elbert Hubbard
The worm's bad luck is the bird's good fortune.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Have the mind of a swam, the heart of a lion, the tongue of a serpent, the flair of a swam, and the soul of a dove.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision.
- Henri Nouwen
Prayer not only teaches and strengthens one for work, work teaches and strengthens one for prayer.
- Andrew Murray
Never trust a man who writes more than he reads.
- Samuel Johnson
This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.
- Samuel Johnson