Balance Stone

Balance Stone

"A completely open mind is like the drain at the end of the street, taking in whatever filth the storms send down the gutter."
--- Shane Sorenson Pond

"A fanatic is someone who can�t change his mind and won�t change the subject."
          --- Winston Churchill

"A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything worthwhile."
          --- Shane Sorenson Pond

"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

"Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let that be our model. It remains quiet within and is not disturbed on the surface."
          --- Confucius

"Be not simply good; be good for something."
          --- Henry David Thoreau

"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony."
          --- Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968)

"How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most."
          --- Stephen Covey

"Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance."
          --- Brian Tracy

"Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations in a popular base, is in the checks and balances imposed on the public servants."
          --- James Fenimore Cooper

"Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner."
          --- Amy Bloom

"One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closest friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one."
          --- Ann Landers

"Superfluous branches We lop away that bearing boughs may live."
          --- William Shakespeare (King Richard II)

"The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."
          --- Julia Ward Howe (1819 - 1910)

"This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances."
          --- Gracie Allen (1906 - 1964)

"To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love."
          --- Karl von Bonstetten

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