Quotes About Balance

One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one instant message can destroy your schedule, forcing you to move meetings, or blow off really important things, like love, and friendship.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

The poor ego… serves three severe masters and does what it can to bring their claims and demands into harmony with one another. No wonder that the ego so often fails in its task. Its three tyrannical masters are the external world, the super-ego and the id.

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

It was the contrast that fascinated Mac as much as anything else. Knowing that both the wilderness and civilization were available to the nth degree, he was completely happy. I have found it is the same with many men; being able to live in the present and also in the past gives them a sense of completeness that they can get in no other way.

Wilderness to the people pf America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.

Harmony seldom makes a headline.

When you need to lose control, to let go, to fall apart, I'll give you that. And I'll catch you afterwards. But if you need to be the one in charge, I'll give you that too.

Life is easy greediness adds complexity

Think, two things on their own and both at once.

Human beings can grow to make killing fields, and they can grow to make gardens.

industry without art is brutality".

And that's the challenge for all of us - to create warmth in a digital world. Not many people can do it. You see a lot of stuff that looks great but simply doesn't turn you on. It's like making a song on a synthesizer. To make a drum machine sound good is really difficult - you might as well play real drums. We're still analogue beings. Our brains and eyes are analogue.

Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.

if you're wise, you'll drop the odd coin in a cap, here and there. Because karma has teeth, all it takes is one really bad day, and we can all fall off the edge.

When all else fails, you can always damn yourself with a necessary evil, for the greater good.

Maybe happiness is just finding the right people at the right time." "But how do you find them?" ... "But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them with all the love you've built up in their absence?" "You don't. And that's the whole point - it works in a way it just wouldn't with other people.

But how do you find the right people-how do you love without smothering them? How do you not suffocate them with all the love you've built up in their absence?

Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.

There's no joy even in beautiful Wisdom, unless one have holy Health.

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.

There's a thin line between love and hate. Maybe you're confusing your emotions.

Why shouldn't I be introspective? We dont' make sense." "Neither do Chocolate and Peanut Butter, but it somehow works." He says "Somehow the mixture of two things is genius.