Quotes About Balance

Ne plus rien vouloir. Attendre jusqu'à ce qu'il n'y ait plus rien à attendre. [...] Ce sera devant toi, au fil du temps, une vie immobile, sans crise, sans désordre : nulle aspérité, nul déséquilibre. Minute après minute, heure après heure, jour après jour, saison après saison [...]

Qui ne travaille pas ne mange pas, certes, mais qui travaille ne vit plus.

Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body.

Savez-vous que c'est à cause de cette recherche de ce que j'appellerais les compensations, cette rechercher d'un bonheur malgré tout, que naissent les manies et, souvent, les déséquilibres.

that if you were offered the choice between a splendid body or a splendid mind you would choose the mind, because it would long outlast the body.

Todo pesar va acompañado de una alegría que lo ilumine. En este mundo nada es perfecto por completo, ni nada por completo insoportable.

It seems as though every joy that comes to one must have a grief to spoil it.' 'It is so, but think instead, dearest, that every grief has joy to lighten it. Nothing in this world is quite perfect, nor quite unbearable.

She fluctuated between pursuing personal fulfilment and devoting her energies to serving the community for no reward. She would do this all her life.

You can be right or you can be happy.

Power can be safely exercised only in the service of that which is ostensibly good. Power is like gasoline. Spread aimlessly over the landscape, it can result in an inferno, causing untold harm. Correctly contained, it can cook supper or transport us to Boston.

There is a certain fine simplicity in a landscape from which the element of water, with all the varied life it brings in it murmuring train, is entirely absent.

When I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, How can I combine career and family?

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.

There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.

Act so that there is no use in a center.

Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

In considering perfection initially there seems to be an axis along which there are two directions, one where we strive to be perfect and consequently live uncomfortably with our own and others imperfections, and another where we in some way reject or ignore the ideal of perfection and so we arguably live with a less directional moral compass. It is somewhat like seeing the glass half full or half empty.

I love to work out. It's one of the ways I love to relieve stress.

I have to shoot and work out and play and discover all the time.

When I work out, I make healthier choices in all areas of life, and when I don't, I tend to slack on other things, too, so I like to keep a good routine going.

I have to take care of myself in order to live life the way I want to. It's important to have rest days. But in the long run, if I don't work out for, like, three days, I feel worse, not better.

It comes down to balance when consuming food - I'll eat burgers, pizza, candy, and then I'll balance it out with fruit, salad, fish... and of course I work out.

If you stay present and don't look too far ahead - or in the rearview mirror - everything will work out.

I'm going to go to work out, and I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to eat really healthy. But I'm going to go to Vegas, and I'm going to stop at In-N-Out Burger, and then I'll be back on track.