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