Quotes about Balance

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.

Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure

My manner of living is plain and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready.

Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.

Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what you're doing is just right).

There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.