Quotes About Balance

Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it.

I have to live with both my selves as best I may.

I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.

I tried the Atkins diet in the Seventies when pregnant with my son, as I didn't want to pile on the pounds. Now, so long as I'm healthy, I don't care what my scales say.

I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem - take advantage of that.

It's easy to get wrapped up in sharing everyday life with a partner. It's fun to get lost in love and romance. It's the best. But holding on to yourself while doing that is the most important thing.

Me, I say too much optimism will get you killed.

Why would they destroy the forest, the mountains . . . the very land?" "For the coal. They blast the tops off the mountains to get to the coal." Krampus shook his head, his face bewildered. "It is like cutting off one's own arm to feed one's self.

How freeing it can be to realize that maybe we don't "need" everything we think we do-instead, what we need to do is scale back on our perceived needs.

I find peace anywhere I go. It depends on what is within the walls of my own home.

When I was a new mom, I used to think that life was going to be balanced, and I strived for that. But life is crazy!

The truth is, if anyone saw my home life, I'm pretty sure it would look like other families' around the world. There's a lot of juggling to be done.

We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.

It's not enough to be clever. You have to be clever and kind.

Complexity yields resilience.

Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat.

When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits -- all without any directing intelligence at all.

The difference between doing a good job and doing a lousy job is driven by how many people a leader has to keep happy.

One year, he went to Paris for the week-end: but that completely upset his equilibrium.

Gadfangled girl things, always robbed me of my common sense.

We need to allow children to try and fail. And when they do make the stupid, shortsighted decisions that come from inexperience, we need to let them suffer the results. At the same time we also need to provide balance by not setting policies that will magnify one mistake, like drug use or fighting, into a life-derailing catastrophe. Unfortunately, this is exactly what our current "zero tolerance" policies- —that expel children from school for just one rule violation—do.

Balance is the core of health. We feel and function best when our body's systems are in balance, and when we're in balance with friends, family, community, and nature.

Patterned, repetitive, rhythmic activity makes the overactive and overly reactive core regulatory networks (see Figure 2) get back "in balance." Music falls into this category—both playing and listening. All sports involve doses of it. Dance, too.

When we get back into balance, we feel better. Relief of distress—getting back into balance—activates the reward networks in the brain. We feel pleasure when we get back into balance—from cold to warm, thirsty to quenched, hungry to satiated.