“To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least you can get by with. The maximum is the most you’re capable of. The optimum is the amount or degree of anything that is most favorable toward the ends you desire.” — Nido Qubein

“Even nectar is poison if taken to excess.”  ~Hindu Proverb

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.”  ~Louisa May Alcott

“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.”  ~Michel de Montaigne

“Life is the sum of all your choices.”  ~Albert Camus

“Health is a large word.  It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well;… and not today’s pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man.”  ~James H. West

“To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.”  ~Confucius, Analects

“No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.”  ~Harry Emerson Fosdick