Quotes About Balance

Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you that what the virtue of wit contained was the vice of scorn.

You can do just about anything you want — as long as it doesn't hurt anyone, or anything, it's probably OK.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough." MARK TWAIN

Ruthlessness, charm, focus, mental toughness, fearlessness, mindfulness (living in the moment), and action. Who wouldn't, at certain points in their lives, benefit from kicking one or two of them up a notch? What was important was being able to turn them back down.

Often, problems arise and dangers accrue not too fast for us to notice, but too slow. So we need to draw lines to prevent things from going too far.

Aristotle observed more than 2,400 years ago, "There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Learning to live with desire may be the single most important act for an alcoholic. Our relationship to pleasure and self-gratification was distorted, and until it becomes relatively balanced, we will suffer, just as the Buddha said.

We have failed to see that total peace can be as deadly as total war.

Being in Christ is both gift and task, privilege and responsibility. Exaggerate the gift, and you risk antinomian complacency; exaggerate the responsibility, and you risk legalistic anxiety.

A world without discomfort is utopia. But it is also stagnant. A world perfectly fair in some dimensions would be horribly unfair in others. A utopia has no problems to solve, but therefore no opportunities either.

for every expert there is an equal and opposite anti-expert.

A world without discomfort is utopia. But it is also stagnant. A world perfectly fair in some dimensions would be horribly unfair in others. A utopia has no problems to solve, but therefore no opportunities either. None

When you are anxious because of your to-do list take comfort in your have-done list.

She never falls, but never gets out of falling. It's a state of permanent almost-fell.

A utopia has no problems to solve, but therefore no opportunities either.

When we live life at the pace of a NASCAR race, sex is one of the first things that goes. Once again, if you want to improve your sex life as a couple, you need to examine your relationship outside the bedroom. What are you doing that is keeping you from sexual intimacy?

You can be a genius, but you won't get far in life without balance.

The point is, parent, you don't have to react to everything.

Reality discipline steers a course between an authoritarian style and a permissive style, giving kids some choices but also holding them accountable.

Live your life; Don't life your live

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

Ultimately, we must turn to the God who is both the One and the Many for the standard of His law. He created to live both as individuals and as corporate units; and His law perfectly balances the liberties of the many with the power of the one political unit.

While the world is "entertaining themselves to death," we are working and resting. This is the essence of the fourth commandment. We work for God and we rest in God (Heb. 4: 10).

I'd never been the most responsible employee. It was the hard thing about having two jobs: you had to disappoint them at different times and sometimes you lost track of who you'd fucked over worse.