Quotes About Balance

A runaway calendar will keep you from simplifying your life. It holds you hostage to tangible things—meetings, appointments, and projects—without giving proper priority to the intangibles: who you are becoming, your relationships with family and friends, your connectedness to God. Without conscious intervention, this pattern of chronically overscheduling ensures that the priorities you care about most will take a backseat to the urgent priorities of others every time. GRABBING

They have gotten down to their own right size. Humility is understanding that they're worthwhile. It's the middle ground between the extremes of grandiosity and intense shame.

If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.

In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.

The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that's even worse

HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.

You know, maybe we don't need enemies. Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.

There's never enough time to do all the nothing I want.

Perhaps only that revenge is ultimately unsatisfying, Snow said. It can make up for evil done to you, but can destroy the remaining good in your life.

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility.

I love to move like a mouse inside this puzzle for the body, balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.

I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path through the day. To the left and right there are an amazing set of distractions that we usually can't afford to follow. But the poet is willing to stop anywhere.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Le coeur a ses raisons que le raison ne connaît point.

Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.

Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference...

Man's sensitivity to little things and insensitivity to the greatest things are marks of a strange disorder.

Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which pleases us.

Man is neither angel nor beast, and unhappily whoever wants to act the angel, acts the beast.

I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the opposite virtue, as in Epaminondas, who possessed extreme courage and extreme kindness. Otherwise it is not rising to the heights but falling down. We show greatness, not by being at one extreme, but by touching both at once and occupying all the space in between.

Le cÅ"ur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point.

Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.

I do not admire the excess of a virtue as of valour, except I see at the same time the excess of the opposite virtue, as in Epaminondas, who had the greatest valour and the greatest kindness. For otherwise it is not to rise, it is to fall. We do not display greatness by going to one extreme, but in touching both at once, and filling all the intervening space.