Quotes About Balance

Looking only at the good side of every situation is often a dangerous way of trying to escape the reality of it. When we praise God we thank Him for our situation, not in spite of it.

Families are like fudge—mostly sweet with a few nuts!

positive word of warning, though: you might find that once you start eating more of the healthy stuff, your body will no longer like it when you eat the bad stuff.

And when it comes to life and mountains, it is really very simple: what we put in is what we get out. And in order to get, we first have to give.

And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make...

Nobody's talking to me, but nobody's hassling me either. I guess you can't have everything.

I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.

To quote a noted Jewish humorist, Sholom Aleichem: "First comes health. You can always hang yourself later." As

Without justice there can be no love.

When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape.

Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.

Our cultural obsession with death consumes energy that could be given to the art of loving.

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape.

if we think of the natural landscapes that surround us as simply, blank slates, existing for humans to act upon them according to our will then we cannot exist in life sustaining harmony with the earth.

The earth, like all of nature, could be life giving but it could also threaten and take life, hence the need for respect for the power of one's natural habitat.

While careers and making money remain important agendas, they never take precedence over valuing and nurturing human life and well-being.

To be here now does not mean that we do not make plans but that we learn to give the making of future plans only a small amount of energy. And once future plans are made, we release our attachment to them.

Ultimately, they choose power over love. To know and keep true love we have to be willing to surrender the will to power.

We must have a Believer. If we have a scientist, then we must have a Believer, in the interests of fairness and balance.

Always put first things first.

What will maintain the pinnacle position of our nation in the world: the ability to shoot a 25-foot jump shot, or the ability to solve a quadratic equation?

Maybe we need a war now and then to get our priorities straight," a second man says.

We must make our choice," wrote Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis. "We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

For whose sake henceforth all his vows be such, as what he loves may never like too much.