Quotes About Balance

late winter and early spring blend and blur in pleasant days and chilly nights penetrating sun and gentle cool breezes with stirrings of life, subtle and green — mornings that light ever earlier rouse us, but sunsets that still come in evening's youth lull

Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind.

I travel upon the heart line of past and present, weaving in the sun pollen of who I am today, wading in the rain puddles of having too much to say because I must always speak from four directions. It is where I have been. It is where I am going. It is where I move. It is where I am.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Decorate yourself from the inside out.

Don't fall prey to the illusion that duty is only to others — you have just as much a duty to care for yourself.

The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will always get ahead. Edwin Markham said, "At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky is a place of central calm." The cyclone derives its power from a calm center. So does a person.

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically — to say "no" to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside.

If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins.

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough; and when you have enough, you have self-respect.

September... where fall and summer meet.

Of autumn months September is the prime, Now day and night are equal in each clime, The twelfth of this Sol rises in the Line, And doth in poising Libra this month shine...

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

If you can't get quiet enough to hear yourself, your life is too loud.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail... Simplify, simplify.

The goal of life: simple but not empty.

We say we have to work so hard in in order to get so little in life. That little may be more than we need. Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

Don't feel guilty about saying no to the nonessentials in life! — simplicity is saying yes to joy by saying no to overmuch overwhelm overdoing overhaving overbeing

Life is amazingly good when it's simple and amazingly simple when it's good.

Prayer of the day: God, let the people of the world understand how they can embrace simplicity to save their lives.

If I had time for only two exercises, I would choose yoga and skipping.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between two.

It's better to crash into a nap than to nap into a crash.

Sleeplessness comes when our thoughts outweigh the night.