Quotes About Balance

So if you start at the center of the peak, you can see that for every five days you spend being average, you spend one day being mildly stupid and one day mildly smart. For every five of those, you spend one day moderately stupid and one day moderately genius. For every five days like that . . 

La empatía es la venta a pérdidas de las emociones. Termina compensando con el tiempo.

Encuentra el equilibrio —le había dicho Sagaz—. Acepta el dolor, pero no aceptes que lo merecías.»

She was as crazy as the others. Her insanity just happened to align with reality.

No corras si sólo tienes fuerzas para andar

I'm not crazy, I'm compratmentalized.

We should have realized that our problems were really solutions to one another—one an offer with no catch, the other a request with no sweetener.

The heart might provide the purpose, but the head provides the method, the path.

There has to be a balance, Vin," he said. "Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between who we wish to be and who we need to be." He sighed. "But for now," he said, nodding to the side, "we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

Recordamos los buenos tiempos y los malos tiempos, olvidando que la mayor parte de las veces ni son buenos ni son malos. Solo son.

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.

Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

It is hard to imagine that a system with such high inequality could be politically stable.

Brain health is key to health in every area—physical, emotional, mental, spiritual.

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there's a fine line between love and hate

I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was 13, I got my first state job doing road construction. Between working, sports and school, I hardly ever had free time.

How can we expect people to put value on our work when we don't value ourselves enough to set and hold uncomfortable boundaries?

We're a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children.

When we stop caring about what people think, we lose our capacity for connection. When we become defined by what people think, we lose our willingness to be vulnerable. If we dismiss all the criticism, we lose out on important feedback, but if we subject ourselves to the hatefulness, our spirits gets crushed. It's a tightrope, shame resilience is the balance bar, and the safety net below is the one or two people in our lives who can help us reality-check the criticism and cynicism.

We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.

When I let go of trying to be everything to everyone, I had much more time, attention, love, and connection for the important people in my life.

If we want to live a Wholehearted life, we have to become intentional about cultivating sleep and play, and about letting go of exhaustion as a status symbol and productivity as self-worth.