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Living a Balanced Life

Balance is not a permanent state to achieve — it's a constant, daily act of choosing and adjusting.

50 quotes found

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The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'real' life.

—C.S. LewisWriter & Theologian

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

—Omar KhayyamMathematician, Astronomer & Poet

Medieval ERA • Central Asia

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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is to be gained by despising things outside our control.

—EpictetusPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

—Virginia WoolfModernist Novelist & Essayist

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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Don't seek for everything to happen as you wish, but choose for things to happen as they do.

—EpictetusPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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My faith is such a cornerstone in my life. It's the most important thing.

—StormzyArtist

Digital Age ERA • Western Europe

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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.

—Charlotte BrontëNovelist

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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My only interest in life is to do what I feel is right.

—Sade AduScholar & Thinker

Digital Age ERA • West Africa

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The future is uncertain. Eat your soup while it's hot.

—Nasreddin HodjaPhilosopher & Satirist

Medieval ERA • MENA

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

—Marcus AureliusEmperor & Philosopher

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Inner peace is the key to a happy and fulfilling life. Cultivate it daily.

—Dalai Lama (14th)Spiritual Leader

Contemporary ERA • East Asia

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I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally.

—Audrey HepburnActress & Humanitarian

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

—James JoyceNovelist

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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Thinking is always out of order, interrupts all ordinary activities and is itself interrupted by them.

—Hannah ArendtPolitical Philosopher

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

—EpictetusPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. All things pass.

—Teresa of ÁvilaMystic & Reformer

Renaissance ERA • Southern Europe

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Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

—Mary OliverPoet

Digital Age ERA • North America

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Life does not consist merely of living, but of being well.

—Maria DąbrowskaNovelist

Early Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue, a state of mind.

—Baruch SpinozaPhilosopher

Renaissance ERA • Western Europe

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

—Carl JungPsychiatrist

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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