Quotes About Balance

I am at the head of a station, with a large outlying district to care for. I see the importance of much prayer, and yet my life hardly leaves room for it. Are we to submit? Or tell us how we can attain to what we desire.

The whole difficulty is that we wish to pray in the Spirit and at the same time walk after the flesh. This is impossible.

But, oh! we are far more occupied with our work than we are with prayer. We believe more in speaking to men than we believe in speaking to God.

the time when any couple has found its balance, and passion has quieted from its early scream, but gratitude is still abundant; what no one realizes are the golden years.

I've got a theory. Now, hear me out. It's that our lives are half comedy and half tragedy. And for some people, it just works out that the first entire half of their lives is tragedy and then the second half is comedy.

Clark always says that you can be thin or you can be happy, and, Arthur, I have already tried thin.

She is talking about the birds, awakening in harmony and bedding down in discord.

somebody has to catch the mouse. So here's my proposal. You be the strong one Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. And I'll be the strong one Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.

My goal is to stay safely in between self-analysis and self-destruction.

Depression frequently destroys the power of mind over mood.

Hatred does not obliterate love. Indeed, the two are in constant fellowship.

All that children can properly require of their parents is that they tolerate their own muddled spectrum - that they neither insist on the lie of perfect happiness nor lapse into the slipshod brutality of giving up.

Is it crazy to avoid the behaviours that make you crazy? Or is it crazy to medicate so that you can sustain a life that makes you crazy?

There is no contradiction between loving someone and feeling burdened by that person; indeed, love tends to magnify the burden. These parents need space for their ambivalence, whether they can allow it for themselves or not. For those who love, there should be no shame in being exhausted—even in imagining another life.

the polar opposite of suffering [is] boredom." I believe that pain needs to be transformed but not forgotten; gainsaid but not obliterated. I

If the earth could feed itself and us without rain, and if we conquered the weather and declared permanent sun, would we not miss grey days and summer storms?

Mothering requires two impulses- the impulse to hold on, and the impulse to push away.

We distract ourselves with details. It's a way of coping.

Because technology is devoted primarily to making our lives easier, it discourages us from disciplines, especially ones that involve disentangling ourselves from technology itself.

if the work of creating consistently leaves us depressed or drained, it is likely that we have somehow missed the path.

power is nothing—worse than nothing—without love.

A sabbathless life ends up with neither true work nor true rest, but with frantic and ineffective activity punctuated by couch-potato lethargy.

We only get one life to live. Wouldn't it be better spent enjoying and serving the world God made rather than a glowing screen?

Build into every single day an hour, for everyone in the household, free from the promises and demands of our devices.