Quotes about Balance

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul, the work of the soul, and good for either, the work of the other.

As a matter of recuperation the vacation does not recuperate, since as a rule, no man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.

The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to reform his life.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.

I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least — and it is commonly more than that — sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.

"A merry laugh doeth good like a medicine," said Solomon a thousand years before Christ. And today if we laughed more we would need medicine less. Aye, if we mixed laughter, love and work in the right proportion, medicine would be but a dream of things that once were.

A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.

Love and Pain go together, for a time at least. If you would know Love, you must know pain too.

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.

To wish to forget the hope because it wasn't realized, to try to cleanse your mind of the beautiful dream because it didn't come true, is to miss out on lie altogether, because life is designed to be lived in an alternation of hours of sunlight and hours of darkness.

People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch up with them.

I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.