Quotes About Balance

Expectations. They ruled my life. -Ch.14

Life is a game; you just have to make sure you're in control.

How much wreckage and destruction justifies the creation of a better world?

And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.

Although Trixie was jostled about a lot the first few minutes and almost lost her stirrups again, she found to her delight at the end of the lesson that she could grip with her knees and rise up to meet Lady's gait almost as rhythmically as Honey.

Julie Czerneda's inner editor says, 'One day her expectations will meet reality and actually get along.

The secret to mountain biking is pretty simple. The slower you go the more likely it is you'll crash.

trust your heart but use your head

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both." –James A. Michener

You are what you eat. What would YOU like to be?

It's all in the way you breathe.

There are times with your friends when you just have to put their whole mess out of your mind for a while.

Suffice it to say that the LOR has usurped the place of my own work, now adorned with cobwebs and dust in a remote corner of my office.

having a list is all peaches and cream, as long as you remember that life usually gets in the way.

I have recently read how many million square miles of backyards there are in this country. Think what a difference it would make if even a sizable portion of these backyards were managed according to nature's rhythm rather than people's; if only the owners tried for maximum diversity because of their love of living things rather than maximum order and limitation because of human exclusivity. ---- Norman Lavers

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

time has become a currency, which we "spend" instead of "pass." Many of us need to relax, to unwind, and, yes, to work less.2

Work-and-spend has become a mutually reinforcing and powerful syndrome-a seamless web we somehow keep choosing, without even meaning to.

I had grown up. I had learned that being a woman was knowing when to stand firm and when to compromise. I had learned to laugh and weep; I had learned that I was weak as well as strong. I had learned to love. I was no longer a rigid, upright tree that would not flex and bow, even though the gale threatened to snap it in two; I was the willow that bends and shivers and sways, and yet remains strong.

My feet will tread soft as a deer in the forest. My mind will be clear as water from the sacred well. My heart will be strong as a great oak. My spirit will spread an eagle's wings, and fly forth.

nos queríamos en una dialéctica de imán y limadura, de ataque y defensa, de pelota y pared.

Buscás eso que llamas la armonía, pero la buscás justo ahí donde acabás de decir que no está, entre los amigos, la familia, en la ciudad...

No era en la cabeza donde tenia el centro

No sé por qué tejía tanto, yo creo que las mujeres tejen cuando han encontrado en esa labor el gran pretexto para no hacer nada.