Quotes about Balance
The outer life we live from ought (I ought to do this) rather than from desire (I want to do this) and management substitutes for mystery.
— John Eldredge
Given the right plan, everything in life can be managed... except your heart.
— John Eldredge
there are few if any issues where all the truth and all the right and all the angels are on one side.
— John F. Kennedy
The Via Media has slept in libraries; it is a substitute of infancy for manhood.
— John Henry Newman
A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.
— Wendell Berry
We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I want to make it clear,if there is ever a conflict [between environmental quality and economic growth], I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.
— Jimmy Carter
Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.
— Thomas Paine
The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment.
— Will Rogers
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
— William Hazlitt
Christianity does NOT replace the technical. When he tells you to feed the hungry and doesn't give you lessons in cookery. If you want to learn THAT, you must go to a cook rather than a Christian.
— CS Lewis
In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.
— Carl Jung