Quotes About Balance

A particularly difficult line to navigate is the one between fear and love, especially for parents, who want more than anything to protect their children from suffering.

When we do our best to treat others with kindness, it's often a struggle to determine which actions best express our love and care for ourselves.

Intellectually, we may appreciate that loving ourselves would give us a firm foundation but for most of us this is a leap of logic, not a leap of the heart.

The manifestation of the free mind is said to be lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.

IMAGINE RECLAIMING ALL THE ENERGY that could be available to us but isn't because we scatter it, squandering it on endlessly regretting the past, worrying about the future, berating ourselves, blaming others, checking Facebook yet again, throwing ourselves into serial snacking, workaholism, recreational shopping, recreational drugs.

What's real strength Samson? he says. It's when you're a balanced man. When you can think as well as use your body. And you have to know who you are and be okay with it. If that means that you're not ripped or tough or a badass, then so be it, says Samson.

She's proving to be the soft and sensual yin to my dirty as fuck yang.

with Wendy Hogan, a part-time tax attorney at S&G, and her six-year-old

Humanity is meant to live as part of creation, not as the owner of it or to make war against it.

Americans were endangering their mental and physical health through overwork," and all in pursuit of the dollar. "Life is not for learning, nor is life for working," he ranted, "but learning and working are for life.

Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.

In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.

She told me that every other step was just for me.' But that's only half of the dance,' I said. Yeah,' my father said. 'She was keeping the rest for herself. Nobody can give everything away. It ain't healthy.

Well, life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that the sign of a superior mind "is the ability to hold two opposing ideas at the same time.

My father went on a legendary drinking binge. My mother went to church every single day. It was all booze and God, booze and God, booze and God.

But God has a way of making things even out, I guess.

There is a good day to die and there is a good day to play the piano.

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that the sign of a superior mind 'is the ability to hold two opposing ideas at the same time.' Do you believe this is true? And is it also true that you once said, 'The only time white people tell the truth is when they keep their mouths shut'?

the earth is our grandmother and that technology has become our mother and that they both hate each other.

I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain Barbossa, the parameters are like rules, mostly guidelines. And that it takes a little bit of bad boy to fight the evil in the world. --Terri Mitchell

The Simi is environmentally sound. Eat everything except for hooves

A flower can't grow without rain. (Alexion) Too much rain and it drowns. (Danger) And yet the most beautiful of the lotus flowers are the ones that grow in the deepest mud. (Alexion)

You have to sleep sometime. (Xypher) So do you. (Julian) Down, boys, down. Please, I just want to be free before I get testosterone poisoning. (Simone)