Quotes About Balance

There was no such thing as a marriage with one happy spouse. Both must be or neither.

That's the trouble with putting women on a pedestal. You do that, and they always fall off - knocking you over on the way down.

Of course. Now she saw the error of her ways. She had been so consumed by the Vigenère cipher that she—horrors—hadn't been eating properly. A quick glance at the mirror told her that she was down to only one point three chins. No wonder her brain was so slow and unwieldy, like a steam engine on the last shovel of coal. Two more madeleines and she felt like a new woman.

Fantasies were like prisoners, less likely to stage a revolt if allowed judicious amounts of supervised exercise.

People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

We fill our days with ongoing connection, denying ourselves time to think and dream.

is not a problem looking for a quick fix. Life is a conversation and you need places to have it. The virtual provides us with more spaces for these conversations and these are enriching. But what makes the physical so precious is that it supports continuity in a different way; it doesn't come and go, and it binds people to it. You can't just log off or drop out.

We are at a moment of temptation, ready to turn to machines for companionship even as we seem pained or inconvenienced to engage with each other in settings as simple as a grocery store. We want technology to step up as we ask people to step back.

The new technologies allow us to "dial down" human contact, to titrate its nature and extent.

Mobile technology is here to stay, along with all the wonders it brings. Yet it is time for us to consider how it may get in the way of other things we hold dear—and how once we recognize this, we can take action: We can both redesign technology and change how we bring it into our lives. A

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU, WALDEN

As technology became our lifeline, we realized how much we missed the full embrace of the human.

We slip into thinking that always being connected is going to make us less lonely. But we are at risk because it is actually the reverse: If we are unable to be alone, we will be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they will only know how to be lonely. Yet

Again, technology makes us forget what we know about life. We become enchanted by technology's promises because we have so many problems we would like technology to solve.

You end up isolated if you don't cultivate the capacity for solitude; the ability to be separate; to gather yourself. Solitude is where you find yourself so you can reach out to other people and form real attachments.

Professional life requires that one live with the tension of using technology and remembering to distrust it.

But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude. THE

Under stress, they seek composure above all. But they do not find equanimity.

Online life is practice to make the rest of life better, but it is also a pleasure in itself.

Overstimulated, we seek out constrained worlds.

Our capacity for solitude is undermined as soon as we introduce a screen.

Men! What do any of you ever do without us?" "Live in hovels?

Nature is being kind without knowing it, as nature can be cruel without knowing it.

Nature will always win in the end, as it must if our species is to survive.