Quotes About Balance

It is always goodWhen a man has two irons in the fire.

Taking back power doesn't necessarily mean that power has to be taken away from someone else; there is enough for all.

There was nothing wrong with fire … as long as you didn't stand too close. Something to keep in mind.

Just because I've gone and snagged myself a hot boyfriend doesn't mean I'm going to leave my bestfriend high and dry.

The next bit is tricky. By holding on with only one hand, and wedging the corresponding foot between the pipe and the wall, I swing out far enough to feel my outstretched fingers brush the window ledge. Not quite far enough. Life is like that.

I love order. It's my dream. A world where all would be silent and still, and each thing in its last place, under the last dust.

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage.

Your first job when eating is to nourish yourself.

No one is too busy to cook.

When you are eating all the time, food curiously loses much of its joy, along with its sense of ceremony and sociability.

What all of us need is to find a way to eat regular meals, to take pleasure in a variety of foods, and to be able to eat them without being consumed by negative emotions.

When our preferences are in order, nutrition should take care of itself.

Traditional cuisines across the world were founded on a strong sense of balance, with norms about which foods go together, and how much one should eat at different times of the day.

Many people have absorbed the lesson from childhood that vegetables and pleasure - and more generally, healthy food and pleasure - can never go together.

Being able to regulate the amount of food we eat according to our needs is perhaps the single most important skill when it comes to eating, and the one that we leat often master.

Very little of the eating that happens in the modern world is as simple as: feel hungry, eat food. The great challenge for most people is learning how to recognise when we have had enough.

One of the commonest ways our eating goes wrong is that we consistently choose foods that offer immediate satiation in the belly rather than longer lasting satiety.

Our difficulty is not just that we haven't learned to cook and grow food, however important that is; it's that we haven't learned to eat in ways that support health and happiness

We eat so often and so much because we have more or less lost touch with the signals our body is sending us about hunger.

If it's not a mealtime and you are wondering which of two 'healthy snacks' you should buy, the answer is probably neither.

It is genuinely possible to reach the point where you desire broccoli more than fries and wholemeal sourdough more than sliced white bread.

Healthy eating should not preclude the odd cake. But it's good to be able to wait: if not for a while year, at least for an hour or two.

Almost every parent wants the best for their child, but they are frequently too hung up on the indignities of the past to see the real problems in front of them or to separate a child's needs from their own urges.