Balanced Life Quotations

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. 
- Robert Fulgham

I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.
- Art Garfunkel

Fortunate, indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use. 
- Peter Latham

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
- Thomas Merton

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
- Epicurus

Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them. 
- Thomas Kinkade

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
- Euripides

Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.
- Orison Swett Marden

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. 
- Steven R. Covey

Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.
- Jessye Norman

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.
- Paul Boese

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
- Francis J. Braceland

So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.
- Oprah Winfrey

What I dream of is an art of balance.
- Henri Matisse

The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the hurried and agitated mind is the weak one.
- Wallace D. Wattles

Next to love, balance is the most important thing.
- John Wooden

The key to keeping your balance is knowing when you've lost it. 
- Anonymous

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From disorder, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
- Euripides

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.
- Rodney Yee

I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, "I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here."
- Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, June 2003

What I dream of is an art of balance.
- Henri Matisse

So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
- Eric Hoffer

Adapted from materials retrieved from http://www.essentiallifeskills.net/balancedlifequotes.html and http://www.quotationspage.com/search.php3?homesearch=balance and elsewhere.