Quotes About Balance

Keith, Allison's husband, had paid little attention to Allison's writing in the early days of their marriage. He was busy with his own profession and trying to make a place for himself in that world. In time, however, Keith had realized that life's deepest meaning is not found in accomplishments but in relationships.

You schedule other people into your calendars—why not your children? They will appreciate the fact that you value your time with them so much that you are willing to say no to other activities.

Anger was designed to be a visitor, never a resident, in the human heart.

you harvesting to the very edges of your field in terms of time? — Gaye Clark

Exuberance and vitality require energy; this means as parents we need to be in the best possible health physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

When we focus on doing our jobs and trust God to do His, everything works better. — Liz Collard —

People are always more important than any item on our to-do list!

you spend more time on Facebook than you do listening to each other, you end up more concerned about your hundred "friends" than about your spouse.

Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.** (emphasis by author) [2002] p.25f

Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls-- family, health, friends, integrity-- are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do , it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.

you can become successful with less discipline than you think, for one simple reason: success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.

Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls—family, health, friends, integrity—are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

Even if you're sure you can win, be careful that you can live with what you lose.

What's natural eventually turns inward to bring stability, but then the church becomes so stable that no one wants to grow anymore. People begin to guard the structure and programs already in place, so it is difficult to close out an older ministry, let alone start a new one.

Change is good, but sometimes leaving things the way they've always been is better.

They say nature abhors a vacuum, but it doesn't like two take-charge personalities in the same vicinity either.

what is all-encompassing can have no opposite."26

After he had taught himself to be friendly, everything else became harder. He had to let go of his nerdy passions. He couldn't do both at once.

Now that they had moved back into the main house, Nat back into her tiny room (though she did have occasional sleepovers at Karen and Vinod's) and he and his wife into theirs, a familial charm had fallen over him, best exemplified by the contradictory smells of bacon in the mornings and Sabbath candles on Friday night. He

the physical world is the only salvation from a mind constantly churning away at itself. At

the physical world is the only salvation from a mind constantly churning away at itself.

because when he gets really drunk he can't really handle stairs, or at least you have a lot of warning when he does.

Great Brown Bear is walking with us, Salmon swimming upstream with us, as we stroll a city street.