Quotes about Balance

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

My attitude of love must not be sacrificed on the altar of activity.

Temperance is love in training.

Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely.

There is good government when those who are near are made happy, and when those who are afar are attracted.

Subdue your heart to match your circumstances.

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep the fire out of the one, and the frost out of the other.

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

Unbounded courage and compassion join'd / Tempering each other in the victor's mind / Alternately proclaim him good and great / And make the hero and the man complete.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.

I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that they neglect all those improvements in wisdom and knowledge which may make them easy to themselves and useful to the world.