Quotes About Balance

Pero, si se me permite formular una anodina teoria general, en nuestra vida imperfecta las cosas inutiles son, en cierta medida, necesarias.

You can't look too far ahead. Do that and you'll lose sight of what you're doing and stumble.

I'm not cool and collected, and I'm not always doing things at my own pace. It's just a question of balance. I'm just good at habitually shifting the weight I carry around from one side of the fulcrum to the other, distributing it. Maybe this strikes others as cool. But it isn't an easy operation. It takes more time than it seems. And even if I do find the right balance, that doesn't lessen the total weight one bit.

Someday you'll find the right person, and you'll learn to have a lot more confidence in yourself. That's what I think. So don't settle for anything less. In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount

fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek

Some things can't be solved just by going wild every now and then.

That's the way it is with the mind. Nothing is ever equal. Like a river, as it flows, the course changes with the terrain.

In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil, the man said. Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities but are continually trading places.

We have a sane part of our minds and an insane part. We negotiate between those two parts.

Muscles are hard to get and easy to lose. Fat is easy to get and hard to lose.

That is why it is necessary for you to fasten your feelings to the earth—firmly, like attaching an anchor to a balloon.

Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such was the way of the world that Dostoevsky depicted in The Brothers Karamazov. The most important thing is to maintain the balance between the constantly moving good and evil. If you lean too much in either direction, it becomes difficult to maintain actual morals. Indeed, balance itself is the good.

The warmth and the pain came as a pair, and unless he accepted the pain, he wouldn't feel the warmth. It was a kind of trade off.

I was determined that my free time was going to be mine.

The world would be a real mess if everybody was a genius. Somebody's got to keep watch, take care of business.

What's really important in life is always the things that are secondary.

For it is just as sinful from the standpoint of nature and of truth to be above oneself as to be below oneself.

In other words, what we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.

En este mundo hay cosas que sólo puedes hacer sola y cosas que sólo puedes hacer con otra persona. Es importante ir combinando las unas con las otras.

If love goes too far, it turns into cruelty.

a highly fragmented day is also a very lazy day.

The very technologies that make it hard for us to maintain healthy boundaries among domains also enable us to blend them in ways—unfathomable even a decade ago—that can render us more productive and more fulfilled.

The trick in decision making is to avoid becoming either mindlessly global or hopelessly local. If

People who are driven to excel have this unconscious propensity to underinvest in their families and overinvest in their careers—even though intimate and loving relationships with their families are the most powerful and enduring source of happiness.