Quotes About Balance

Oh sorry, I was taking life seriously.

I need my sleep. I need about eight hours a day, and about ten at night.

Building a strong future is living at the intersection of today and tomorrow: where living in the moment and who you have chosen to become dance together as one.

Future strong individuals will not take on personal sacrifices, hardships and corporate crap that sidetrack them from their dreams and goals.

The key to either great purpose or great destruction lies in where we choose to sustain our focus. Knowing

Busyness is an enemy of true Kingdom experience.

The bottom line is that we must learn to rule with the heart of a servant and serve with the heart of a king.

Thanksgiving keeps us                              sane and alive.

After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor.

In fact, there are half as many wild animals on the planet as there were in 1970, an awesome and mostly unnoticed silencing.

But knowing that moose had returned to Vermont in his lifetime pleased him enormously. It was the idea that things repaired themselves, that if you backed off a little and didn't ask too much of the world then it would meet you halfway.

Put simply, between ecological destruction and technological hubris, the human experiment is now in question.

We have, in other words, changed the energy balance of our planet, the amount of the sun's heat that is returned to space. Those of us who burn lots of fossil fuel have changed the way the world operates, fundamentally.

everyone knows, at some level, that the sharp line between "good weather" and "bad weather" is a fiction, that we need rain as surely as we need sun.

Management" of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American incarnation.

we have developed a series of emotional thermostats as well, by far the most potent of which is television itself. instead of really experiencing the highs and lows, pains and joys, that make up a life, many of us use TV just as we use central heating- to flatten our variations, to maintain a constant "optimal" temperature.

Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds and plants surround us. Cooperation with all these things brings harmony, opposition to them brings disaster and chaos.

Without trees, we cannot inhabit the earth.

Animals are the messengers of the tree, and trees the gardens of animals. Life depends upon life. All forces, all elements, all life forms are the biomass of the tree.

The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.

Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you're donating blood.

Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.'

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

diplomacy by "balance of fear.