Quotes About Balance

Mattie felt sympathy and judgement growing together. They didn't cancel each other out.

like everything, sanity came more easily with practice.

The thing is, you can use for eight hours, and then as long as you take sixty-four hours off, you can go another eight hours without being addicted. It's like a scientific formula.

Back then, I would have begged forgiveness from my friends in the BSC. I would have tried like crazy to balance my time between school, the club, Robert and my family. I would have gone on feeling guilty about my boyfriend at BSC meetings, embarrassed about one set of friends while I was with the other, but I wasn't feeling apologetic now or guilty or ashamed.

Daddy nodded and took a deep breath. "We can do both," he said.

she'd taken a leave of absence when Squirt was born).

Tofu and sprouts just taste better to me than potato chips and cupcakes.

I have usually found that, in life, good things are followed by bad things. One day you get an A-plus on a spelling test, the next time around you get a C (or worse). A run of good luck is followed by a run of bad luck. Good news is followed by bad news.

Lake Dekanawida

It is time we realized that we need not be unreasonable to suffuse our lives with love, compassion, ecstasy, and awe; nor must we renounce all forms of spirituality or mysticism to be on good terms with reason

don't think that big mansions and flashy cars are what the Wal-Mart culture is supposed to be about. It's great to have the money to fall back on, and I'm glad some of these folks have been able to take off and go fishing at a fairly early age. That's fine with me. But if you get too caught up in that good life, it's probably time to move on, simply because you lose touch with what your mind is supposed to be concentrating on: serving the customer.

Here's the thing: money never has meant that much to me, not even in the sense of keeping score. If we had enough groceries, and a nice place to live, plenty of room to keep and feed my bird dogs, a place to hunt, a place to play tennis, and the means to get the lads good educations—that's rich. No question about

Here's the thing: money never has meant that much to me, not even in the sense of keeping score. If we had enough groceries, and a nice place to live, plenty of room to keep and feed my bird dogs, a place to hunt, a place to play tennis, and the means to get the lads good educations—that's rich.

Those who don't have a wife should sublimate their sexual energies with outdoor sports or long walks.

To remember oneself and to relax the body is something we have to do constantly.

People have the false habit of putting an artificial gap between the spiritual and the financial. We cannot accept this habit because life is an integral whole which we should understand deeply.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. ( Essay on Tea , 1757.)

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

Nature has given woman so much power that the law cannot afford to give her more.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.