Quotes About Balance

We can take a daily inventory of how much exercise we get, how much sleep we get, our network of relationships, the meaning and sense of purpose that drives us, and the amount of stress we have. This inventory allows us to see if our lifestyles are supporting or undermining our ability to actualize positive change.

It's like training dogs. You want the dog to obey you, but you can't have real respect for a dog that always obeys you. You want a dog that occasionally goes over the wall or bites the postman without your permission; you want to be reminded that you command a subdued yet wild animal, not a crawler. A man should be strong enough to kill you with his bare hands.

This is what it means to be in the middle of love, I thought. Being in the middle of love is like being in the middle of a war zone.

It had to happen. It was part of the order of things. It was the way the universe was supposed to work.

one thing I've realized is that my life in its entirety is more important than any one aspect of it. And the sad truth is that until I met you I didn't have anything else.

Gravity is Earth's way of keeping our spirits on the ground.

Tacos are very nutritional. They contain all four food groups.

I guess I need to find a happy medium, someplace between giving them what they want and ending up face-down in a pool of my own goddamn integrity.

Believe it or not, I have boundaries.

I showed up, shut up, and made it work. But it felt like compromise. And if you ask me, compromise feels like amputation.

Women are traditionally trained to place others' needs first… their satisfaction to be in making it possible for others to use their abilities.

I understand loving someone, but not losing yourself to that degree. It's not healthy.

If you want to condemn yourself for the mistakes you've made, let's be fair, that means you've got to congratulate yourself for all the good things you've done. It's okay to say, "God, I wish I'd done this; yeah, but I did do that." Then it kind of balances out.

I'm a pretty solid Christian. But even as an altar boy, I was always asking the bigger questions--you know: if God is, in fact, good, what is all this death I see? And if God is gentle, what is all this suffering I see? I've found some of the answers in Eastern religion. It explained my Christianity to me. Good and evil are the same thing. You can't have one without the other. It's the balance, it's the temperance of things.

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

There could never be innocence in a world without justice.

It's not an 'either/or,' it's an 'and.' You can be serious and play.

American Christians spend more on dieting than on world missions.5 We spend more curing our overconsumption than we do feeding the physically and spiritually hungry of the world.

To know what is enough is to be immune from disgrace, To know when to stop is to be preserved from all perils, Only thus can you endure long.

Mentally most of us are in between where we would like to be and where we are.

I'm being mellow, but everyone else is rowing against my harmony stream.

There's only one thing holding America back from realizing her full glory. Ready? You want to write this down? No? Okay, here it is: We need to stop taking ourselves so seriously.

Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the damage.