Quotes About Balance

Breathless living is anything but the abundant life. The pace at which we live is not sustainable.

Is there a way to choose a few things and do them well rather than do a lot of things halfway or not at all? Can we accept the fact that we may be in a season when we need to say no with the understanding that the season will not last forever?

Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.

Ebb and flow … risk and reward … life and death?such was the balance of nature.

every creature

Life and death have equal authority in nature. When laws contradict so fundamentally they cause mere confusion in the average soul

I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would get to the office at 6:30 a.m. and write until other people arrived, around 9. Now I still do that. I start at 6:30 or 7, and I'll write until 11, then take an hour off, then work until about 2 p.m. By then my brain has had enough.

Computers, iPads, and DVDs have their place, but for small children through to teens, these electronic devices can warp the senses and affect brain development negatively, because they are all flat and clean and the same distance away. You don't refocus your eyes or move about enough to develop the balance and activity centers of the brain. And

fatigue, paradoxically, is almost always a result of living a life of too little action.

Which comes first: Good or Evil? Usually evil. Good counters.

What are we saying to our children when we forsake church week after week so they can play soccer, baseball, or football? Why would we forsake worship of the living God to embrace kicking a ball? Why not forsake soccer to let our children know who and what is most important in our lives? There is nothing wrong with sports. But when sport is valued over the worship of God, something is seriously wrong. All that we have comes from His hand. He deserves

Seven days without a Sabbath makes one weak.

We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.

cause and effect act in webs, not chains.

Never have too good a time

life responsibilities in the right order: God, family, education, and then business.

he's become the man he envisioned himself being and has put his priorities in this order: God, family, education, business, and then everything else. But if family isn't second, it's about to be a problem;

We can honor what lies behind us without being a slave to it," Kitty said.

If we save our wild places, we will ultimately save ourselves.

We don't own the planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife.

We humans still have a long way to go with learning to live harmoniously with our environment and its wildlife.

It causes me great pain and anxiety to inflict fear on this poor old croc, but without me, he and his wilderness would suffer.

Cycling is unique. No other sport lets you go like that — where there's only the bike left to hold you up. If you ran as hard, you'd fall over. Your legs wouldn't support you.

I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.