77 quotes
“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”
— Homer
“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
— Carl Jung
“Learn to be thankful for what you already have while you pursue all that you want.”
— Jim Rohn
“The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms work love and play”
— Erik Erikson
“Generosity is giving more than you can and pride is taking less than you need and faith is the balance between the two”
— Kahlil Gibran
“I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice”
— Albert Camus
“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”
— Zhu Xi
“We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.”
— Zeno of Citium
“A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.”
— Unknown
“A man should never neglect his family for business.”
— Walt Disney
“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Justice cannot be for one side alone but must be for both”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.”
— Lao Tzu
“Put your trust in God, but keep your camel tied.”
“Rest in reason; move in passion.”
“Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience.”
— Joseph Goldstein
“Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.”
— Adam Smith
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
— J.K. Rowling
“Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much.”
— Joshua Reynolds
“The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.”
— Publilius Syrus
“Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.”
— Blaise Pascal
“He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.”
— Joseph Joubert
“Life is about change. Sometimes it's painful. Sometimes it's beautiful. But most of the time, it's both.”
— Lana Lang
“Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.”
— Ellen Sue Stern
“Remember when life is hard to keep a level head and balanced spirit.”
— Horace
“You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peace. This of course would be an attachment to stillness.”
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel; our reason is the pilot that steers her.”
— Alexander Pope
“Let the one who cannot be alone beware of community”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
— Confucius
“Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“This world of ours is a dream within a dream — do not take it for real, and do not deny it.”
— Rumi
“In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exists, there must also be losers.”
“The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity; the knowledge of the world will keep you from despair.”
— Saadi Shirazi
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order”
— Thomas Merton
“A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.”
“Knowledge without action is vanity, and action without knowledge is insanity.”
— Al-Ghazali
“Life is like riding a bicycle to keep your balance you must keep moving”
— Albert Einstein
“Let him who cannot be alone beware of community let him who is not in community beware of being alone”
“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”
— Will Rogers
“He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”
“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
— Willa Cather
“The art of living is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other.”
— Alan Watts
“Find the intersection of what you love what you are good at what the world needs and what you can be paid for”
— Ikigai Philosophy
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.”
“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed”
— Khalil Gibran
— Jan Chozen Bays
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.”
“Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.”
“Generosity is giving more than you can and pride is taking less than you need.”
“Family life is too important to be taken seriously all the time. It must also have joy and laughter.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”
— Thucydides
“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully.”
“To have enough is happiness, to have more than enough is harmful. That is true of all things, but especially of wealth.”
— Zhuangzi
“Why shouldnt art be pretty there are enough unpleasant things in the world”
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world”
— E.B. White
“Expectation is the root of all heartache, yet without it the heart cannot bloom.”
“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.”
— Denis Waitley
“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”
— James Russell Lowell
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance order rhythm and harmony”
“Experience life in all possible ways. Good and bad bitter and sweet dark and light summer and winter.”
— Osho
“Open your arms to change, but dont let go of your values.”
— Dalai Lama
“The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“Extreme justice is often injustice.”
— Jean Racine
“The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long”
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony”
“I will love the light for it shows me the way yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”
— Og Mandino
“Purpose lives at the intersection of what you love what you are good at what the world needs and what you can be paid for”
“Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.”
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