Quotes About Balance

It is only when we are fully rooted that we are really able to move.

How can we set limits that are creative and not destructive?

so often I need OUT; something will throw me into total disproportion, and I have to get away from everybody—away from all these people I love most in the world—in order to regain a sense of proportion.

In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be undeveloped in every way. A House Like a Lotus

It's extremely difficult to get things in perspective when you rub up against them every day.

Peace is the center of the atom, the core of quiet within the storm. It is not a cessation . . .

Out by that ocean, you feel smaller, less important, somehow; it puts things into proportion

No point in destroying Wednesday thinking about Friday. This one-day-at-a-time thing really worked. Friday

We need, then, to protect a time and a place for timeless time, and to remind ourselves continually that this is not self-indulgent but rather crucial to intellectual work. If we don't find timeless time, there is evidence that not only our work but also our brains will suffer.

I feel I can give you everything without giving myself away, I whispered in your basement bed. If one does one's solitude right, this is the prize.

So far as I can tell, most worthwhile pleasures on this earth slip between gratifying another and gratifying oneself. Some would call that an ethics.

There is often a struggle, and sometimes, even more interestingly, a collusion between the powers of pathology and creation. —OLIVER SACKS

Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.

If you go too fast you might not notice everything. On the other hand, you don't want to be late.

Jump right in, or wade in slowly. Advantage to one, it's over quickly. Advantage to the other, it isn't.

I think when one's working, one works between absolute confidence and absolute doubt, and I got a huge dallop of each.

There are, I think, two important lessons here. The first is that truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. [...] The second lesson is that in good decision making, frugality matters

When we talk about analytic versus intuitive decision making, neither is good or bad. What is bad is if you use either of them in an inappropriate circumstance.

People are in one of two states in a relationship. The first is what I call positive sentiment override, where positive emotions overrides irritability.

Truly succesful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

In the end, the Impressionists made the right choice, which is one of the reasons that their paintings hang in every major art museum in the world. But this same dilemma comes up again and again in our own lives, and often we don't choose so wisely. The inverted-U curve reminds us that there is a point at which money and resources stop making our lives better and start making them worse.

I think that the task of figuring out how to combine the best of conscious deliberation and instinctive judgment is one of the great challenges of our time.

use as ammunition, as pendulum

But this same dilemma comes up again and again in our own lives, and often we don't choose so wisely. The inverted-U curve reminds us that there is a point at which money and resources stop making our lives better and start making them worse.