Quotes About Balance

The trick has been to live in the contradictions while maintaining principles, beliefs, and purpose.

I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home.

Make food choices that honor your health and taste buds while making you feel good. Remember that you don't have to eat a perfect diet to be healthy. You will not suddenly get a nutrient deficiency, or gain weight from one snack, one meal, or one day of eating. It's what you eat consistently over time that matters. Progress, not perfection, is what counts.

Having a healthy relationship with food means you are not morally superior or inferior based on your eating choices.

Listen for the body signals that tell you that you are no longer hungry. Observe the signs that show that you're comfortably full. Pause in the middle of a meal or snack and ask yourself how the food tastes, and what your current fullness level is.

We define healthy eating as having a healthy balance of foods and having a healthy relationship with food.

Honestly, unless you killed the chef or the farmer, there should be no guilt about your eating choices.

Unconscious dieting usually occurs in the form of meticulous eating habits.

Self-care is defined as the daily process of attending to your basic physical and emotional needs, which include the shaping of your daily routine, relationships, and environment, as needed to promote self-care (Cook-Cottone 2015).

Ironically a "good" or "bad" scale number can both trigger overeating—whether it's a congratulatory eating party or a consolation party.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. —Voltaire

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After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

It is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

True contemplation can only thrive when defended from two opposite exaggerations: quietism on the one hand, and spiritual fuss upon the other. Neither from passivity nor from anxiety has it anything to gain.

For no man understandeth what love is in itself, but such are its workings: which giveth more than one can take, and asketh more than one can pay.

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Che l'«uomo economico» non esista, fu anche il punto di vista di Mussolini, che ad esso contrappose l'«uomo integrale» (1933); e la sua idea era che «la politica ha dominato e sempre dominerà l'economia», in

A wise person once said, "Anything worth doing is worth doing half-assed.

your hand but have to let it fly. But it might fly away, and that is why you need a cage to control it.

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

If a man have not order within him He can not spread order about him; And if a man have not order within him His family will not act with due order; And if the prince have not order within him He can not put order in his dominions.

Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. Gravity, a mysterious carriage of the body to conceal the defects of the mind.