Quotes About Balance

La tentación del martirio es grande también, porque nos evita examinarnos profundamente. Pero de nada sirve convertirnos en enfermeros, terapeutas y guardianes 24 x 7 si vamos a acabar con nuestra salud y estabilidad mental en pocos años. La carrera es larga y sólo podemos aprovechar las oportunidades que pueden aparecer si tenemos reservas de confianza y energía para poder hacer alguna locura cuando parece valer la pena.

Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part. Think of the world in these terms, as larger in scale than the human. This is a healthy corrective to the commonplace view that people own the land, which exists to serve their purposes. Think big and live small.

Tranquility is achieved when you are in harmony with all beings and all situations, knowing that everything is precisely the way it is meant to be.

Illness is the result of imbalance. Imbalance is a result of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are creates thoughts and actions that lead to an unhealthy lifestyle and eventually to illness.... Illness can thus be understood as a lesson you have given yourself to help you remember who you are.

Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.

E. B. White once wrote, "I can't decide whether to enjoy the world or improve the world; that makes it difficult to plan the day.

This is good, and all good things cast shadows.

Instead, I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light.

When I wake up in the morning," E. B. White once wrote, "I can't decide whether to enjoy the world or improve the world; that makes it difficult to plan the day.

Stop for one whole day every week, and you will remember what it means to be created in the image of God, who rested on the seventh day not from weariness but from complete freedom. The clear promise is that those who rest like God find themselves free like God, no longer slaves to the thousand compulsions that send others rushing toward their graves.

As much as I love the written word, I am aware of the ways this love removes me from the world.

no one had to tell me why Martha stayed in the kitchen while her sister Mary sat at Jesus's feet. Martha was an introvert. She found chopping potatoes far less exhausting than talking to people, and besides, she could hear everything they were saying right where she was without having to come up with something to say herself.

To be human is to live by sunlight and moonlight, with anxiety and delight, admitting limits and transcending them, falling down and rising up.

To be human is to live by sunlight and moonlight, with anxiety and delight, admitting limits and transcending them, falling down and rising up. To want a life with only half of these things in it is to want half a life, shutting the other half away where it will not interfere with one's bright fantasies of the way things ought to be.

The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe. —SAINT TERESA OF LISIEUX

I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.

Are we always to be wanting what isn't: the greenest grass accord and principle motherhood and career? Yet our age lies to us like an asp, whispering. "Both.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

The mind protects and the heart connects

that," he added before she could, "because someone needs to be around here to buy the food and see to the house and the kids." He patted the air. "I know that, Sarah. I'm the first one to say that your role is as important as mine, it's just that the demands are different." He put a hand on the back of his neck.

Mothering is precarious. You try to do the right thing—you think you have—then wham.

You showed me the side of life I was missing. The memory of it was here in Bell Valley, waiting for me. Now I have to go home and blend the two—right brain, left brain—rational, intuitive." I wasn't sure

What about me, Peter?" "You can cook. You can clean. You can be waiting here for me when I get home. I'd think that would be enough." "Well, it's not!