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