Quotes About Balance

But between then and now, I had met McQuaid. I had lived with him and learned that sustainable love doesn't grow out of superheated physical passion, but out of simply holding hands and holding on, day in and day out. I'd learned that "good" really is enough, not because you're settling for something less, but because "fantastic" and "incredible" burn you out emotionally, just as life in the fast lane bums you out physically.

When we adopt a professional identity, we are encouraged to think of it as our entire identity and we have little time or energy to explore and develop other aspects of our personalities. The career culture places little premium on the quality of roundedness, but we cannot be whole people without being rounded.

suppose the sisters are my garden," she said. "They are the growing things I am meant to cultivate and serve." A twinkle came and went and her voice grew determined. "I will simply have to be firm about my own priorities, that's all.

I mean that two of any thing is a most uncomfortable number. One may do as he pleases. Six may get along well enough. But two must always struggle for mastery. Two must always watch each other. The eyes of all the world will be on two, uncertain which of them to follow.

The world is neither unipolar, multipolar, nor chaotic—it is all three at the same time.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man.

The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.

Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too many from the human standpoint.

Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Both the cockroach and the bird could get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

When something baffled him he found that if he kept on worrying it, he got no further, and lost his sense of proportion in the process. So when he came to a dead stop he indulged in what he called "shutting his eyes" for a little, and when he "opened" them again he habitually found a new light on things that revealed unexpected angles and made the old problem a totally new proposition. There

Perhaps the old saying is true and it is not possible to love and be wise.

There is a limit to one's capacity for rows, you know. There comes a time when you're only too ready to sacrifice something for a quiet life.

You have the most priceless of all attributes for your job, and that is flair. But don't let it ride you, Grant. Don't let your imagination take hold. Keep it your servant.

There's lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older, I'm finding out it's not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It's more about staying healthy and flexible.

There was always one person more devoted than the other in a relationship, right?

She began to cry. But it is the gift of Shaolin master girl arguers to cry and fight at the same time.