Quotes About Balance

My life, like yours, is a constant process of improvisation between my interests and personality on the one hand and circumstances and opportunities on the other.

Benjamin Franklin, the American statesman and polymath, knew that a balanced, liberal education for all was essential for the proper flourishing of the American dream.

The objective of this form of recreation is to bring a proper balance into our lives—a balance between making a living and making a life. Whether or not we can spend most of our time in our Element, it's essential for our well-being that we connect with our true passions in some way and at some point.

Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe. — H. G. Wells

Ah! On est toujours en faute, ou parce qu'on n'aime pas assez, ou parce qu'on aime trop.

Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

Adults are just children who earn money.

We would not deny the mind; but merely remember that as the corrective of wrong thinking is right thinking, the corrective of all thinking is the body.

Ecology teaches us "that the total economy of the planet cannot be guided by an efficient rationale of exploitation alone," wrote Burke more than 70 years ago, "but that the exploiting part must eventually suffer if it too greatly disturbs the balance of the whole.

One qualification for prospering is to esteem earthly things lightly. You cannot put earthly things above spiritual things and expect to prosper as God desires you to.

physical and material prosperity depended upon their spiritual prosperity.

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

If I thought I was only doing one thing—running—I would be naïve. Even in my leisure, when strapped to a web-enabled device, I'm furiously multitasking and, in a very positive way, highly distracted.

Now, more than ever before, it is evident that man must find his centre, his 'soul', or perish as a self-conscious entity.

So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance.

To the North American Indian, "medicine" meant more than a substance to restore health and vitality to a sick or maladjusted body. "Medicine" was energy - a vital power or force that was inherent in Nature itself. A person's "medicine" was their power - the expression of their own life-energy system.

As Within, So Without.

The universe is constructed on four great creative principles - light, life, love and law. [Light: The electromagnetic force Life: The life force Love: The binding force Law: The vibratory force that found expression in laws.]

To live, fellowbub, is essential but to overlive is to court the devil's wife, & in loving that she you will be lain in such sparkling cold labyrinths

Bill Phillips, one of his successors as chairman, captured the spirit in his mantra: "Work hard. Play hard. Sleep fast.

Body practice is the root of spiritual practice. When we calm the body, the mind can expand without limit.

Qi is the Chinese word for "life energy". According to Chinese medicine, qi is the animating power that flows through all living things. A living being is filled with it. A dead person has no more qi. A healthy individual has more qi than one who is ill. However health is more than an abundance of qi. Health implies that the qi in our bodies is clear, rather than polluted and turbid, and flowing smoothly, liek a stream, not blocked or stagnant.

When filled with qi, the body is like a tree branch filled with sap; it can bend and flow with the breeze, but it does not snap or lose its connection with the root. On the other hand, a stiff, dead branch is easily broken. Thus the adage of Lao Zi, "Concentrate the qi and you will achieve the utmost suppleness... Suppleness is the essence of life.

We are part of the natural environment; we grow out of it in the same way that a wave emerges from the ocean or a tree grows in the forest.