Quotes About Balance

We should practice being so centered in our daily lives that if the world crumbles beneath our feet it doesn't matter and won't throw us off.

Women who had once wanted careers were now making careers out of having babies.

We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.

Why do insurance companies, when they want to describe an act of God, invariably pick on something which sounds much more like an act of the Devil? One would think that God was exclusively concerned in making hurricanes, smallpox, thunderbolts, and dry rot. They seem to forget that He also manufactures rainbows, apple-blossom, and Siamese kittens. However, that is, perhaps, a diversion.

For a garden is a mistress, and gardening is a blend of all the arts, and if it is not the death of me, sooner or later, I shall be much surprised.

Haven't you noticed grown-ups aren't perfect? asked Mrs. Quimby. Especially when they're tired. Then how come you expect kids to be so perfect all the time? demanded Ramona.

at least not all the time.

It is only when we feel deprived that we resent giving to others. Self-care does not mean you stop caring about others; it just means you start caring more about you. Start thinking about yourself more and others less. Since you have a choice between taking care of someone else, or giving to yourself, try choosing yourself sometimes.

If we serve our outer needs without allowing ourselves time for the person within, and especially if we ignore the inner voice that tells us to slow down or take a break, then at some point our health will begin to suffer.

It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.

Pennsylvania one year paid out $90,000 in bounties for the killing of 130,000 owls and hawks to save the state's farmers a slightly less than whopping $1,875 in estimated livestock losses. (It is not very often, after all, that an owl carries off a cow.)

The lesson to draw from this, of course, is that when you move from one country to another you have to accept that there are some things that are better and some things that are worse, and there is nothing you can do about it. That may not be the profoundest of insights to take away from a morning's outing , but I did get a free doughnut as well, so on balance I guess I'm happy. Now if you will excuse me I have to drive to Vermont and collect some mail from a Mr. Bubba.

I often use alcohol as an artificial check on my skills.

It seems madness to think that a society would rate marginal economic growth above a livable earth, but there you are. I had always assumed the reason to build a bigger economy was to make the world a better place. In fact, it appears, the reason to build a bigger economy is, well, to build a bigger economy.

Goldilocks effect"—that everything is just right. (For the record, these three possible universes are known respectively as closed, open and flat.) Now

It is a curious feature of our existence that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it. The

Only one thing is certain: we live on a knife edge. In

In Florence, the annual ratio of tourists to locals is 14:1. How can any place preserve any kind of independent life when it is so manifestly overwhelmed? It can't. It's as simple as that.

Impulsively, I lumbered aboard, bought a ticket, and took a seat toward the back. The trick of successful walking, I always say, is knowing when to stop.

I think both sides have done a bit of a disservice to science by insisting that it must be one thing or the other. Things are likely to turn out to be not so straightforward as either camp would have you believe.

I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored.

She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude.

Suicide by lifestyle takes ages.

the people who were most intensely interested in the world's living things were the ones most likely to extinguish them. No-one