Quotes About Balance

People who have been single for a long time tend to be independent. That's not necessarily bad, but you need to remember you're half of a team now.

That's the difference between people like you and people like me. You think everything's sad. Because all you do is THINK about stuff all the time. If you only think about stuff half the time you're way less sad. What do you do the other half of the time? When you're not thinking? Uh, I don't know, maybe have a life?

This book is about envisioning your life together with love, care, and mindfulness. It is about skillfully balancing the crazy wisdom of love with the grounded practicality of making a life together. It is about the middle road, the constant, meaningful interplay between these two poles, loving a person and loving the life you create together. Strong marriages exist here, between the fire of intimacy and the ground of pragmatism.

Coming out of your head and into your environment can help cut anxiety for a few moments, and in those moments you have a chance to regain equilibrium.

to counter longing, pay attention to the present moment; to counter rage, invite sadness; and to reverse disheartenment, introduce an element of precision to your environment.

There is a way, however, to turn poison into medicine. Depending on how it's used, a single substance can be either poisonous or medicinal.

Chess is a miniature version of life. To be successful, you need to be disciplined, assess resources, consider responsible choices and adjust when circumstances change.

What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and right is love.

For love may be wonderful, but it demands time, space, energy and a willingness to accommodate.

The more established we are in our world, the less flexibility we have for allowing a partner into that world.

I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.

No parent/home/child/teacher/school has an all-round 100 percent wholeness. We all have limitations and problems. But I must never think it is all or nothing. Perhaps I'd like to live in the country, but I don't. Well, maybe I can get the family to a park two times a week, and out to the country once every two weeks. Maybe I have to send my child to a not-so-good school. Well, maybe we can read one or two good books together aloud. If you can't give them everything, give them something.

It does not mean that adults think of a child as a blank sheet of paper on which they imprint their ideas, impressions, and knowledge. Neither does it mean leaving the child unattended like a weed growing in a sidewalk. It is a balanced understanding of education as the provision of possibilities for a person to build relationships with a vast number of things and thoughts.

The mother needs mothering too.

The mother who understands her own intentions and her daughter's intentions, who has introspection and a strong sense of self, and who is able to separate her identity from her daughter's, has the key to achieving the right balance.

Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.

moms, even good ones, sometimes lose it a little so as not to lose it all.

I meditate, I do yoga and I have a lot of friends who are healers.....And if none of that works, I go by a chocolate bar and a bottle of cognac.

It's not a punishment. It's the place where mercy and justice meet.

You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance," I said. "it's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground. I'm going to call that the Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life.