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- Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955)
- Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
- If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
- I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
- Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, October 2002
- Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
- Lin Yutang
- Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.
- Natalie Goldberg
- When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things [but] there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.
- James Carroll
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