Quotes About Balance

Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days you are the statue

Managing your personal energy is like managing budgets in a company.

Focus on your diet first and get that right so you have enough energy to want to exercise.

Successwise, you're better off being good at two complementary skills than being excellent at one.

take care of yourself first and use that success as leverage to get everything else you need. I'll

Just remember to keep your eye out for ways to maximize your schedule freedom in the long term.

If eating a healthy diet feels unpleasant, you're doing it wrong. And you're wasting your limited stockpile of willpower.

one of the primary factors in determining your energy level, and therefore your mood, is what you've eaten recently.*

I'm giving you permission to take care of yourself first, so you can do a better job of being generous in the long run.

Good health and sufficient money are necessary for a base level of happiness, but you need to be right with your family, friends, and romantic partners to truly enjoy life. The

The most important form of selfishness involves spending time on your fitness, eating right, pursuing your career, and still spending quality time with your family and friends. If you neglect your health or your career, you slip into the second category—stupid—which is a short slide to becoming a burden on society.

When I speak of priorities I don't mean that in terms of what you love the most. You can love your family more than you love your job and still spend all day working so your family has food and opportunities. Priorities are the things you need to get right so the things you love can thrive.

Generous people take care of their own needs first. In fact, doing so is a moral necessity. The world needs you at your best.

You need to control the order and timing of things to be happy. It's important to look at happiness in terms of timing because timing is easier to control than resources.

Some have even suggested that the Bible is entirely egoistic and simply changes the categories of what constitutes a person's self-interest. However, that is too strong a statement. While the Bible never condemns self-interest, it does require that it be balanced with concern for others (Phil. 2:4). It is one thing to occasionally appeal to rational self-interest as the Bible does, but quite another to claim that egoism is a sufficient ethical system, as do thoroughgoing ethical egoists.

Believers are called to be servants, and that invariably involves periodically putting others' needs ahead of our own and in rare circumstances can involve laying down one's life for another. It does not, however, obligate believers to neglect their legitimate self-interest.

One should remember that at times even Jesus separated from the crowds to seek solitude with his heavenly Father. Hence the Bible seems to suggest that self-interest has a legitimate place, but it needs to be balanced by a compassionate concern for the interests of others.

If all you do is sit and read, all you get is smart and soft.

Faith and reason are indeed complementary faculties that we use to think about the truth. When any winged creature (or mechanism) tries to fly on just one wing, it falls to the ground. In a similar way, when we human beings try to wing it with just one faculty, we crash.

St. Josemaria diagnosed this tendency to overwork as a sickness of the spirit. That was before the word "workaholism" was coined. St. Josemaria called the condition "professionalitis"— suggesting a corruption of something good.

Une vie de sagesse est une vie de contemplation et d'actions entremêlées.

Wisdom tells me i'm nothing, love tells me I'm everything.

Hoverboarding looks so fun, like being a bird. But actually doing it is hard work. Shay shrugged. Being a bird's probably hard work too. Flapping your wings all day, you know?

Must it be, that what makes for a man's happiness becomes the source for his misery?