Quotes About Balance

Awareness puts us in tune with the elements. This elemental connection is part of being alive. We are too often indoors, unaware of the elements. The elements are not our enemies: we ourselves are made of the elements. When we connect with them, they inspire us and make us stronger, allowing us to communicate with the world in much subtler ways.

Once I was running and there was someone on the treadmill next to me who stopped running to answer a question I asked and flew of the back of the treadmill. Being fully engaged has many benefits.

Of course, we all go through our own experiences. If we do not push ourselves enough, we do not grow, but if we push ourselves too much, we regress. What is enough will change, depending on where we are and what we are doing. In that sense, the present moment is always some kind of beginning.

Meditation stabilizes us in our inherent power as humans. It introduces the possibility of living our lives in a continually conscious, confident, and balanced state of mind.

The psyche is a self-regulating system whose aim is not perfection but wholeness and equilibrium.

But why would we mistake an abundance of information for peace of mind?

Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.

All our power lies in both mind and body; we employ the mind to rule, the body rather to serve; the one we have in common with the Gods, the other with the brutes.

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

Harmony makes small things grow. Lack of it makes big things decay.

ita in maximâ fortunâ minima licentia est;

If the precious, limited hours of my day are used bit by bit in scanning information, I will have less and less time for the attentive, slow, good work of creativity, conversation, and connection that real people and real homes require.

Although our culture seems to worship being busy, constant activity will slowly undermine our perspective on life and kill our souls.

Running at such a pace to keep all of these balls in the air left me gasping for breath and longing for attention and support

Busyness falsely promises productivity.

Managing our stress and our rest is a sign of living wisely.

A WISE WOMAN TAKES CARE OF HER EMOTIONAL HEALTH, her spiritual health, and her intellectual growth.

We allow the habit of busyness to replace our habits of prayer and Scripture reading.

It took me a little while, but I learned to see my "time-outs" as necessities, not luxuries, and to be vigilant about making room for them in my life. Without them, I found it almost impossible to provide the kind of welcoming, accepting home experience that Nathan and all my children needed.

It is enough to know... Too much to see...

There was a time to be alone, but a time when a close friend filled that space so much better.

My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'

But try to avoid being too hard on yourself or identifying too many items you need to get to work on,

This reluctance to view money, position, and winning as chief arbiters of success is psychologically healthy for women and great for their teams and organizations. But it can have a dark side, leading women to underinvest in their own success even as they devote time to building up others. This instinct for self-sacrifice also lies at the bottom of a number of behaviors that hold women back.