Jimmy Buffett
Musician, Author
"It's important to have as much fun as possible while we're here. It balances out the times when the minefield of life explodes."
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Edith Wharton
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Life is balance of holding on and letting go."
Michelle Obama
Lawyer, Author, First Lady
"We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list."
Nikola Tesla
Inventor, Electrical Engineer
"Throughout the infinite, the forces are in a perfect balance, and hence the energy of a single thought may determine the motion of a universe."
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"The landscape affects the human psyche - the soul, the body and the innermost contemplations - like music. Every time you feel nature deeper you resonate better with her, finding new elements of balance and freedom."
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"Take care of yourself - you never know when the world will need you."
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"Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion."
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"You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole."
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"This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances."
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"Balance and good fortune can only come to a person who is balanced and feels fortunate."
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"Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness."
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"We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions."
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"Mixture of assimilation to earlier schemas and adaptation to the actual conditions of the situation is what defines motor intelligence. But and this is where rules come into existence as soon as a balance is established between adaptation and assimilation, the course of conduct adopted becomes crystallized and ritualized. New schemas are even established which the child looks for and retains with care, as though they were obligatory or charged with efficacy."
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"I encourage you from the depths of my heart and being to know that you have the full capacity and the right to make changes that will enliven your awareness, raise the succulent joy in your heart, and experience the vitality that comes from living in balance."
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"I didn't want to be thirtysomething and not know what I was going to do. I was quite afraid of that, there were quite a lot of aimless kids around, in that 'other' side of my life, who didn't really know what to do because they always had a bank balance to fall back on and they were quite lost."
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"The world will be saved by the western woman."
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"We [must] hold the just balance and set ourselves as resolutely against improper corporate influence on the one hand as against demagogy and mob rule on the other."
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"I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale."
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"I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed - in a modified way - 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance."
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"The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be."
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"It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family."
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"If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance."
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"Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of . . . mature people is of crucial importance."
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"Balance the federal budget now, not 15 years from now, not 20 years from now, but now. And throw out the entire federal tax system, replace it with a fair tax, a consumption tax, that by all measurements is just that. It's fair."
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