Quotes About Balance

being connected in a shallow way to the entire world can prevent us from being deeply connected to those closest to us—including ourselves.

Too many of us leave our lives—and, in fact, our souls—behind when we go to work.

enough. Nothing else really counts at all." Nature

vivimos nuestras vidas con prisa, intentando encontrar y ahorrar tiempo, nos encontraremos siempre faltos de él, estresados y exhaustos. «Hacia

Anyone with a smartphone and a full email in-box knows that it's easy to be busy while not being aware that we're actually living.

The National Sleep Foundation recommends 65 degrees and says that sleep is actually disrupted when the temperature rises above 75 degrees or falls below 54 degrees.

Rest is prior to motion and stillness prior to action.

Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.

live fuller, more complete lives, aligned with what matters: A life that isn't defined by our salaries and résumés.

More and more people, of all ages and from all walks of life, are coming to realize that there's more to life than climbing the ladder, that we are more than our résumés, and that we don't have to buy into the collective delusion that burnout is the necessary price we must pay for success.

Casper] has an interesting origin story.. "We noticed that everyone was drinking green juice and working at standing desks to stay healthy and increase productivity, yet sleep was something that everyone sacrificed..Even worse: they bragged about how little they slept.

That's because women are paying an even higher price than men for their participation in a work culture fueled by stress, sleep deprivation, and burnout. That is one reason why so many talented women, with impressive degrees working in high-powered jobs, end up abandoning their careers when they can afford

It's time we recognize that, as the workplace is currently structured, a lot of women don't want to get to the top and stay there because they don't want to pay the price—in terms of their health, their well-being, and their happiness.

Rob yourself of sleep and you'll find you do not function at your personal best.

To live the lives we truly want and deserve, and not just the lives we settle for, we need a Third Metric, a third measure of success that goes beyond the two metrics of money and power, and consists of four pillars: well-being, wisdom, wonder, and giving. These four pillars make up the four sections of this book.

But, if we let it, technology can also add a lot of noise and distraction that get in the way of our most fundamental creative capabilities—instead of freeing us, it can consume us. What

If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.

beings. When we are all mind, things can get rigid. When

is a way of being that gives you the resources to deal with the ups and downs of life

Just as money can't buy happiness, neither can it buy time affluence.

The harder we press on a violin string, the less we can feel it. The louder we play, the less we hear.… If I "try" to play, I fail; if I race, I trip. The only road to strength is vulnerability. —STEPHEN NACHMANOVITCH

those at the top of the income spectrum are among the most likely to be time-poor.

sleep deprivation is glamorized and celebrated: "You snooze, you lose.

When we shrink our whole reality down to pending projects, when our life becomes our endless to-do list, it's difficult to put them aside each night and let ourselves fall asleep and connect with something deeper.