Quotes About Balance

We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks—we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?

Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time. When you are measuring life, you are not living it.

The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.

You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.

Tension of opposites.

This time was different. The tools of this era--phones, computers--enabled people to move at a blurring pace. Yet despite all they accomplished, they were never at peace.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.

The things you spend so much time on--all this work you do--might not seem as important. You might have to make room for some more spiritual things.

It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed. ...We think such thngs are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole. It is why we are drawn to babies... And to funerals.

I give myself a good cry if i need it. A little each morning, a few tears and that's all.

Dor came from a time before the written word, a time when if you wished to speak with someone, you walked to see them. This time was different. The tools of this era—phones, computers—enabled people to move at a blurring pace. Yet despite all they accomplished, they were never at peace. They constantly checked their devices to see what time it was— the very thing Dor had tried to determine once with a stick, a stone, and a shadow.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth.

One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself.

Everyone is in such a hurry to find the meaning in their lives. Once you start running, it's hard to slow yourself down.

There was a sermon where he brought a squash and a piece of wood, then slammed each with a knife to show that things which grow quickly are often more easily destroyed than those which take a long time.

You only have peace when you make it with yourself.

Morrie might have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good excuse for this, except the one that everyone these days seems to have. I had become too wrapped up in the siren song of my own life. I was busy.

Fairness does not govern life and death.

But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.

A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle." Sounds like a wrestling match, I say. "A wrestling match." He laughs. "Yes, you could describe life that way. " So which side wins, I ask? "Which side wins?" He smiles at me, the crinkled eyes, the crooked teeth. "Love wins. Love always wins.

Learn to detach.

La vida es una serie de tirones hacia atrás y hacia adelante. Quieres hacer una cosa pero estás obligado hacer otra diferente. Algo te hace daño, pero tú sabes que no debería hacértelo. Das por supuestas ciertas cosas, aunque sabes que no deberías dar nada por supuesto. Es una tensión de opuestos, como una goma elástica estirada. Y la mayoría de nosotros vive en un punto intermedio.

But there still seemed to be no clear answers. Do you take care of others or take care of your inner child? Return to traditional values or reject tradition as useless? Seek success or seek simplicity? Just Say No or Just Do It?