Quotes About Balance

Now here's the thing about people who swear by routines. When they decide to break from the usual, they go big. The Greek salad is replaced by a large pepperoni pizza. The skipped day at the gym becomes a month of couch-potatoing.

We must stand firm between two kinds of madness: the belief that we can do anything; and the belief that we can do nothing.

Spinoza dit qu'il ne se peut pas que l'homme n'ait pas de passions, mais que le sage forme en son âme une telle étendue de pensées heureuses que ses passions sont toutes petites à côté.

In political practice, we must be both 'the arrow and the bull's eye', because the old worldview is also still present within us.

One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

Even when we think of empathy as a tool for good, it might not be a good idea to oversell its strengths, and we should remember that there will always be people who will use it against others for their own benefit.

Freud said that life is all about being able to love and to work. And I think it is about those things. But it's also about play. Play can bring back the past, but even if it doesn't, play is now; play is fun. More than ever, I have the feeling that all of what we do that counts is just love and work and play.

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

I gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things.

I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.

Governments and public sector organizations across the world are trying to balance essential, and often conflicting, demands: to deliver better, more relevant public services centred on the needs of the citizens and businesses they serve; to reduce costs and improve the efficiency of their operations; and to reinvent supply chains to deliver services quickly, cheaply and effectively.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."  - Dr. Stephen Covey

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love.

For everyone you create to be dependent on you, you are equally dependent on them. Neither relationship is healthy.

Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger.

Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities.

Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.

My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.