Quotes About Balance

Today, I will practice tolerance, acceptance, and love of others as they are, and myself as I am. I will strive for that balance between expecting too much and expecting too little from others and myself.

Something way more profound and lasting than happiness is peace.

Today, I will take actions that appear appropriate. I will let go of the rest. I will strive for the balance between self-responsibility, responsibility to others, and letting go.

Taking Care of Ourselves: October 6

Most of us have been so busy responding to other people's problems that we haven't had time to identify, much less take care of, our own problems.

Seek balance in your life. Learn when it's time to let go, and learn when it's time to act.

When I repress my emotions, my stomach keeps score … 1 —JOHN POWELL

There will be a rightness and an appropriateness to it.

Love cannot exist without the dimension of justice.

It made me wonder, if everyone is so connected to their phones-talking and texting and whatever else it is they do all day long-how do they ever have time to notice the beauty of God's creation all around them? How do they have time to connect to God?

Sometimes it's good to take a break. Just as long as you remember it's only a break.

Witch' is just a religion, okay? No baby-sacrificing, no Black Masses, no sending imps out to scare the dog-snot out of kids, trying to make them think they're crazy. We don't do things like that. Our number-one law is 'Have fun in this lifetime, but don't hurt anybody.' Nice little paraphrase of An it harm none, do as ye will if I do say so myself.

Muddling along ... is the great secret to life... You take the good and the bad and cope as they happen - Gallen in Intrigues

Life is attention to both the large and the small, little brother. Pay heed to the sun, but watch your feet, or you'll fall ingloriously on your nose.

Learn the wisdom of the Hound. Always rest, eat, and play when you can, because the universe conspires to keep you from doing any of these things nearly as often as you would like.

Always rest, eat, and play when you can, because the universe conspires to keep you from doing any of these things nearly as often as you would like.

Sometimes, it seemed, the business of a Witch or a Godmother was not so much using magic as knowing when not to use it.

Sevgi bazen yan?nda ac?y? da getirir ama ÅŸu an hissettiÄŸin ac?n?n beraberinde sevgiyi de getirip getiremeyeceÄŸini bilmenin hiçbir yolu yoktur.

Tradition spoke of an elegant half-arch being only a fallen pile of stones without its counterpart to make it whole.

when there's nothing to be done you might as well get some sleep, because when there is something to be done you're going to wish you'd had some." As

People did stupid, sometimes unkind things. People did things that were a little bad, things that they were ashamed of. People cheated a little on their taxes, got a little greedy, sometimes they pilfered something that wasn't properly theirs, they quarreled, they abused each other (but never to the point that it would call for a Herald's intervention) and were basically just . . . people. A little good, a little bad, mostly just getting by. Not

Ordinary folks, a muddle in the middle, just trying to get by with the least amount of pain and the greatest amount of joy. He could not argue with that.

I can't help it; present me with a situation, and I have to think about both sides of it. I can try to suppress it, but I cannot shut off the way I think. Once knowledge is gained, there's no going back to ignorance. I think about what the other feels. I can't stop it

the baby synchronized her heart rate to that of the mother or father when they approached, but she did not synchronize her heart rate to the stranger's.98 These data suggest that babies and their caretakers are entwined in a homeostatic relationship, with the baby clicking in with the parents to achieve some sort of balance.