400 inspirational quotes to enlighten your life

By Crossmap, blogs.crossmap.com Saturday, June 24, 2023

Inspirational quotes about Balance and contentment from philosophers and life consultants

Balance fosters personal growth, contentment, and a sense of inner peace. 

Use these inspirational quotes from esteemed philosophers, historians, and other life consultants to achieve harmony in your life.

1. “Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.” – Epicurus
2. Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let that be our model.” – Confucius
3. Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away. Barbara De Angelis
4. “Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” – Lao Tzu
5. "Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance." – Plato
6. “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.” - Socrates
7. "What is important in life is life, and not the result of life." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
8. "There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.  There is no greater guilt than discontent.  And there is no greater disaster than greed." – Lao Tzu
9. "Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Yin-yang nature. Non-being is the greatest joy." - Lao Tzu
10. "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein
11. "A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety." - Aesop
12. "Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." - Ovid (43BC - 17AD)
13. "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." - Bertrand Russell
14. “The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.” - Norman Vincent Peale
15. “Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.” - Dalai Lama
16. “Don't search for anything except peace. Try to calm the mind. Everything else will come on its own." - Baba Hari Das
17. “The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” – Plato
18. “Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.” – Sallust
19. “But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?” - Albert Camus
20. “We should respect all religions and just believe in peace, kindness and harmony.” - Ananya Panday
21. “Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.” - Audre Lorde
22. “The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever-better world. We are not created only to enjoy the world; we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.” - Maria Montessori
23. “When the mind and body are in harmony, the mind works better.” – Caroline Prohosky
24. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi
25. “The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.” - Sai Baba
26. “Building art is a synthesis of life in materialized form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.” - Alvar Aalto
27. “One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.” - Napoleon Hill
28. “A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.” - Albert Einstein
29. “Short term satisfaction will never lead to something timeless.” - Jack Dorsey
30. “Life is so impermanent that it’s not about somebody else or things around me, it’s about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.” - K.D. Lang
31. “To be content doesn’t mean you don’t desire more, it means you’re thankful for what you have and patient for what’s to come.” Tony Gaskins
32. “Contentment is the greatest form of wealth.” Acharya Nagarjuna
33. “Contentment makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.” Benjamin Franklin
34. “The desire for freedom and equilibrium (harmony) is inherent in man (due to the universal in him).” - Piet Mondrian
35. “Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.” - Jocko Willink
36. “Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.” - Marquis de Sade
37. “I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.” - Marjane Satrapi
38. “Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.” - Rudolf Arnheim
39. “To live in the midst of suffering, which we do, we do, amid distress, and to keep some equilibrium in the midst of that - that would be happiness enough.” - Michael Leunig
40. “Usually, I am not overexcited about hits or down in the dumps for flops. I maintain a degree of equilibrium.” - Raghava Lawrence

Originally published at Crossmap. See the next page for quotes about faith. 

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