February: Balance

2023

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Rumi (1207 – 1273) Persia

2022

Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes, if it were always closed in a fist or open, it would be paralyzed.

Rumi (1207 – 1273) Persia.

2021

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

Maxwell Maltz (1927-2003) USA

2020

The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes. 

Michael Steinhardt (1940 - ) USA

2019

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free. 

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926 - 2021) Vietnam

2018

I soon found out you can't change the world.  The best you can do is to learn to live with it. 

Henry Miller (1891 – 1980) USA

2017

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. 

Einstein (1879 – 1955) Germany.

2016

The most important human endeavour is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.”  

Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) Germany

2015

The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the hurried and agitated mind is the weak one. 

Wallace D. Wattles (1860 – 1911) USA

2014

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. 

Thomas Merton (1915 – 1968) France

2013

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. 

Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) Germany

2012

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 (480-406 BC) Greece

2011

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

Epicurus (341 – 270 BC) Greece