Quotes About Balance

The Product of Freedom and Security is a constant (F X S = k). Giving up freedom for security is beginning to look naive.

The majority is always sane

Trying to follow all the best practices of all best Christians won't make you a better Christian. It might make you a nervous wreck.

We overtrained.

High-powered front-door programs can have the unintended consequence of sending a message that some weekends and programs are for bringing guests—and the rest aren't.

Without perspective, everything gets blown out of proportion. We catastrophize. The loss of privilege becomes harsh persecution. Opposition becomes hatred. And every legal or electoral setback becomes cause for anguish and despair. In short, we evaluate and extrapolate without putting God into the equation.

In no particular order (since vital signs are all equally vital), the five areas we monitor are: •Word • Worship • Witness • Warmth • Works

We woke up every day at 3:00 A.M., and would sit around the clock—fifty minutes of sitting followed by ten minutes of brisk walking—until 11:00 P.M.

To know you have enough is to be rich. —The Tao Te Ching

If the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off

The constant need to make everyone else happy at the cost of your own happiness will destroy you.

Always do your work, Arjuna, but do not claim its yield, neither think of yourself in charge, nor flee the battlefield. Balanced in your duty, without care to win or lose, turn your work to yoga like the learned sages do.

Da linedanseren var kommet halvveis, tok tauet slutt.

There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware.

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

The truth can both lift up and knock down.

Well, before writing became all-consuming, I was a quilter, like Hattie and Perilee. I don't do that anymore, but I do knit, garden and watch the birds in my backyard. I also take lots of walks, do yoga and talk my husband into taking me out to dinner as often as possible.

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it.

?nsan ald???n? silen bir varl?kt?r, yaln?zca verdi?inin hesab?n? yapmay? bilir. (s. 146)

Yerinden oynayan akl? bir daha yuvas?na geri dönmedi. Kafas?n?n içinde be?ik gibi salland? durdu.

Before heaven and earth had taken form all was vague and amorphous. Therefore it was called the Great Beginning. The Great Beginning produced emptiness and emptiness produced the universe…. The combined essences of heaven and earth became the yin and yang, the concentrated essences of the yin and yang became the four seasons, and the scattered essences of the four seasons became the myriad creatures of the world.

Model 4 further holds that most of the time decision makers are guided by two competing motivations: the desire to make a good decision and the desire to make an easy decision.

A bird's song is beautiful, but if it never stops you feel like shooting it.