Quotes About Balance

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.

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

Today we often use deadlines—real and imaginary—to imprison ourselves.

Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life. —WU MEN

What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace. —PAULO COELHO

You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever.

I wanted what we all want: everything. We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising. We want to be youthful adventurers and middle-aged mothers. We want intimacy and autonomy, safety and stimulation, reassurance and novelty, coziness and thrills. But we can't have it all.

nature starts many more projects than she can ever finish.

To build a respectful, kind and loving relationship, begin by being respectful, kind and loving to yourself

Ensomhet, sier du. Det er greit med litt ensomhet bare det ikke blir for mye. Da åpner jeg døren og roper ut i natten: kom inn kom inn – her er ensomhet nok for to! ja for fire! Og på riktig ille dager brøler jeg: her er ensomhet nok for et helt orkester!

Sometimes we forget to, or feel guilty when, we take time to nourish our own souls. It is not selfish to spiritually fill ourselves because we need that time to find the delicate balance in our lives. Only then can we truly be of service to others. --Debra Siegrist

Hearthcraft functions on a very basic truth: Living your life is a spiritual act.

Don't multitask by combining your treats, unless you specifically design one as something stacked (a fancy coffee while reading a good book, for example). If you overload your treat time, you'll lose out on the full experience of enjoying each aspect, and the self-care might become perfunctory.

Unplugging helps you refocus on yourself instead of being pulled in a zillion different directions. Those directions may all be important, but you are just as important. Unplugging allows you to focus on being in the moment, here and now. It helps you step away from the emotional roller coaster that you ride reacting to a friend's story, a news article, or outrage over worldwide events. Unplugging gives you the chance to remember who you are at your core.

1. Spring equinox to summer solstice: the growing tide 2. Summer solstice to autumn equinox: the reaping tide 2. Autumn equinox to winter solstice: the resting tide 3. Winter solstice to spring equinox: the cleansing tide

Finding this true self can be a remarkably difficult goal. We lie to ourselves on a regular basis, often so well that we are completely deaf to certain aspects of our personalities until the day we die. Working with that shadowed side of ourselves can be rewarding, however, and maintaining a harmony between our darker aspects and our positive aspects brings our personal energy into balance.

The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure

One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

It is better to rise from life as from a banquet - neither thirsty nor drunken.

And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

The single harmony produced by all the heavenly bodies singing and dancing together springs from one source and ends by achieving one purpose, and has rightly bestowed the name not of \""disordered\"" but of \""ordered universe\"" upon the whole.

One swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.