Quotes About Balance

Seth Godin says, "Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from." Business is way too hard to work at something just for money.

the Doctor said, as if he hadn't heard, 'but the fact remains that if we attempt to push things too far we might end up disappearing up our own singularity and, probably, take this entire section of the universe with us. And I think we've all had quite enough of that for a while.

And, like every other trait, it's distributed in different proportions among the population, just like height. Some people have a lot of this tendency, and some just a little. It helps the tribe to have some of both types of people—aggressive warriors who have so little fear that they will go out and bring home a mastodon for lunch, and cautious members who won't have any part of that, but will also live long enough to raise a new generation, and feed it by growing corn.

Life for him was a constant balancing act between disrespect and career preservation.

If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

You can do anything, but not everything.

Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax.

Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. —Henri Bergson

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. —Jonathan Kozol

You've got to think about the big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. —Alvin Toffler

There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it.

This is our world. Aye, there's more than enough of darkness in it. But over everything there's all this joy, Kit. There's all this lovely, lovely light.

I sleep lightly and tread to keep my head out of the sea of dreams.

This really isn't fair," Mena said. "What is 'fair'?" asked one of the watchers called Devoth. "I don't know this word.

Which wolf wins?" The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed.

The real world, I'm afraid, is a lot more complex and dangerous, and sometimes it takes the ugly parts of life to keep the beautiful parts alive.

no matter how much we want to believe that our world is just and fair, it isn't. At least in some cases, the only way to have justice is to leave fairness at the door on the way in.

As for power, the man who has it is as much its slave as its master. The use of that power imposes obligations upon the one who uses it,

It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

We moved from being a part of nature to being apart from nature.

We live our comfortable lives in the shadow of a disaster of our own making. That disaster is being brought about by the very things that allow us to live our comfortable lives.

We have come as far as we have because we are the cleverest creatures to have ever lived on Earth. But if we are to continue to exist, we will require more than intelligence. We will require wisdom.