Quotes About Balance

Jesus is busy with his own stuff, and is not going to get involved in your little tug-of-war. Plus, don't forget, he has his own mother to deal with. She's all he can handle, as far as mothers go.

Thurber was right when he said, "You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backwards.

As well as we know our grown children and relatives, we don't know how much energy they have to put into simply keeping their lives together at all.

if you've worked in good faith for a couple of hours but cannot hear it today, have some lunch.

that getting all of one's addictions under control is a little like putting an octopus to bed.

There is flow everywhere in nature—glaciers are just rivers that are moving really, really slowly—so how could there not be flow in each of

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life.

Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. T. S. ELIOT

Tom said either you learn to live with paradox and ambiguity or you'll be 6 years old for the rest of your life.

Of course, there will always be more you could do, but you have to remind yourself that perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.

I rest in silence and music and long strides, while Sam rests in noise and motion.

As the mystics would have us believe, "As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul.

Don't try harder—resist less." This

Someone who'd spent $30,000 at a diet hospital told me the secret: Eat less, exercise more. Oh, and here's $5,000 worth of cutting edge advice: drink more water.

And third, he makes me stronger, because you have to balance so much now—you have to reschedule everything you have to do—homework and him. It forces you to tap into more of you than you knew was there—parts that you didn't even know you had.

My therapist said starving and dieting are like putting ice cream on a leg wound. I said that ice cream would feel cool and numbing. She said yes and then it would melt.

T. S. Eliot wrote, 'Teach us to care and not to care / Teach us to sit still.' We long for this, and yet we check our smartphones every ten minutes for news, texts, distraction.

When the tiger executes a merger with the goat, which one walks away?

Calum patted her shoulder and prayed to the Gods of Balanced Equations

Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.

A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.

One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.

My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.

How inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse. If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange.