Quotes About Balance

Indulgence makes a child fat. Restriction makes a child fat and unhappy.

Part of eating well is making friends with hunger.

Of all the foods that we could give a child a free rein over, cereal makes the least sense. Parents let children choose cereal but dictate which vegetables they eat; it should be the other way around.

For people with eating disorders, food is both a poison and the remedy, but this is true for the rest of us as well. Food is an inescapable fact of life and the task for each of us is to find a way to make out peace with it.

If you can improve the eating, the rest of life gets a little better too.

A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.

There are some Christians whose secular life is an arid, worldly strife, and whose religion is but a turbid sentimentalism. Their life runs along that line where the overflow of the Nile meets the desert. It is the boundary line between sand and mud.

As long as society is absolutely divided as milk is, the cream being at the top and the impoverished milk at the bottom, so long will society be unbalanced, and liable to be thrown into convulsions out of which will spring wars. A circulation throughout keeps it in health.

The mind has no kitchen to do its dirty work in while the parlor remains clean.

Men's graces must get the better of their faults as a farmer's crops do of the weeds--by growth. When the corn is low, the farmer uses the plough to root up the weeds; but when it is high, and shakes its palm-like leaves in the wind, he says, "Let the corn take care of them," for the dense shadow of growing corn is as fatal to weeds as the edge of the sickle.

Well-married, a man is winged--ill-matched, he is shackled.

A man can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to a man's without harm.

God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.

It is necessary, if one would read aright, that he should read at least two newspapers, representing both sides of important subjects.

Only the insane take themselves quite seriously.

Reason and instinct have an inveterate habit of cancelling each other out.

But time lessens all extremes and reduces them to mediums & unconcern.

I would not make the world wise at the expense of a virtue.

There is a need for closeness, yet we can't get too close. The teacher-pupil relationship is a kind of tightrope to be walked. I know how carefully I must choose a word, a gesture. I understand the delicate balance between friendliness and familiarity, dignity and aloofness.

Styeddy, styeddy. Boyfrriend. Boyfrriends out eleven o'clock, styeddies out twelve," she pronounced sternly. Then, as if relieved at an unpleasant duty so neatly discharged, she added: "Rrule." Beguiled by the momentary vision of a procession of boyfriends tiptoeing down the stairs, shoes in hand, while steadies, single-file, marched up from eleven to twelve, I said primly: "I'm interested only in my work.

peace on a world scale is determined by each of us creating peace in our own hearts and minds first, and doing our best to live in harmony with the people and other living creatures around us. When we can each do that, I believe together we will then become a force powerful enough to create positive change on a scale never before conceived.

What I would like to say to you in conclusion is this: romance is the dessert. If you are hungry, you need to be working on the main meal - yourself. That means learning how to fulfill yourself first, and once you have achieved that, then you will be ready for dessert!" - Raeleen

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

Living simply makes loving simple.