Quotes About Balance

Rules without relationship leads to rebellion.

I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.

Just as the yin-yang symbol possesses a kernel of light in the dark, and of dark in the light, creative leaps are grounded in a technical foundation.

While a fixation on results is certainly unhealthy, short-term goals can be useful developmental tools if they are balanced within a nurturing long-term philosophy.

My chess rivals were taking lessons, competing at every weekend tournament, while I was on a boat crashing through big waves. But I would come back with new ideas and a full tank of energy and determination. The ocean has always healed me…

The clear thinker is suddenly at war with himself and flow is lost.

Sometimes karma takes years to pay a person back, but that day, it had a fast backhand return...

What's privacy to the employee is security to the boss.

Rule: "My adult child should be able to balance out whatever mistakes I have made with all of the good that I have done as a parent." Counter: "While I wish that my child could see all of the ways that I have been dedicated, I

That's why taking care of yourself is important: your partner doesn't have endless resources to support you, and you need to be able to give something back to the relationship.

Peace is like a rainbow, you can't have a rainbow without a storm and you can't have peace with out war.

We had visceral, rich memories of dull, interminable hours. Then a day would pass in perfect harmony with our projects, our family members, and our coworkers, and we couldn't believe we were getting paid for this.

But now, now he needed to let himself rest when it came time to rest, and to move on when it came time to move on, and to do so in the direction of the moving on.

The rest of us would have liked some time off. They only gave us that Friday afternoon, which we took gladly, but we, too, suffered from stress and all sorts of disorders and would have liked more than an afternoon.

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

We should never use spiritual activities as a way to grab for more intimacy than is appropriate for our relationship.

John Calvin wrote, "The evil in our desire typically does not lie in what we want, but in that we want it too much.

Just because something is good doesn't mean we should pursue it right now. We have to remember that the right thing at the wrong time is a wrong thing.

The right thing at the wrong tme is the wrong thing.

God gave people 2 ears and 1 mouth because He wants us to listen twice as much as we talk.

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

Maybe no one's really crazy. Everyone is just a little bit mad. How much depends on where you fall in the spectrum. How much depends on how lucky you are.

We need to be able to get wired up without overheating, and disconnect without going cold.

infinite games are constantly adjusted so that both players can remain standing.