Balance Quotes

"Find a victory in every defeat to remain hopeful, and find a defeat in every victory to remain humble."

- Orrin Woodward

"I recommend calm and calm all the time."

- Padre Pio

"Endeavor to unite the simplicity of children with the prudence of adults."

- Padre Pio

"Do not be so given to the activity of Martha as to forget the silence of Mary. May the Virgin who so well reconciled the one with the other be your sweet model and inspiration."

- Padre Pio

""Better learn balance. Balance is key. Balance good, karate good. Everything good. Balance bad, better pack up go home. Understand?""

- Mr. Miyagi, The Karate Kid

"Too much freedom can lead to the soul’s decay."

- Prince

""Masters of the martial arts believe that a strong body and mind go together: you can't improve one without working on the other.""

- Laura Scandiffio, The Martial Arts Book

"If Mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy."

- Ferrell Sims

"The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires."

- Dorothy Parker

"In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."

- Carl Jung

"sometimes you gotta have a little sadness, so you know when the good times come."

- Bob Ross

"You gotta know happy and you gotta know glad, cause you’re gonna know lonely and you’re gonna know sad"

- Mary Chapin Carpenter

"I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness."

- Nana Mouskouri

"There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time."

- Ned Vizzini

"Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy."

- C. JoyBell C.

"In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?"

- Leslie Caron

"Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison."

- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

"First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great."

- Alyssa Milano

"Life is all about balance. Since I have only one leg, I understand that well."

- Sandy Fussell

"Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order."

- Ilka Chase

"Of the three forms of government, monarchy, aristocracy, and the people, the best is a mixture of all three for each one taken on its own can lead to disaster. Kings can be capricious, aristocrats, self-interested, and an unbridled multitude enjoying unwanted power more terrifying then a conflagration or a raging sea."

- Cicero

"Democracy is a small, hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences."

- James B. Conant

"If, in short, you are of the opinion that the principal object of government is not to confer the greatest possible glory upon the body of the nation, but to ensure the greatest enjoyment and to avoid the most misery to each of the individuals who compose it—if such be your desire, then equalize the conditions of men and establish democratic institutions."

- Alexis de Tocqueville

"No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"The best weekends are a perfect blend of relaxation and adventure."

- Unknown

"Martial arts is the perfect combination of mind, body, and spirit."

"If we don't feel lonely sometimes, how would we feel when we are happy and joyous?"

"The ugly parts of life make the beautiful parts much better."

"It's okay to cry, but don't forget to smile afterward."