Quotes About Balance

Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

If the head and body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul, that is the first thing.… —Plato

Nothing was wrong, except that nothing was wrong.

Regardless of what your Achilles Heel may be, loving yourself with a balance of acceptance and self-discipline is a key to achieving mastery. You have to appreciate yourself as you are, including your weak spots and vulnerabilities, as a basis for lasting change.

James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, "serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means.

Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton

Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and you need to start taking care of it. This involves a combination of proper diet, exercise, and recreation.

A Seed for Contemplation: Creative people who cherish the gift of life often slip into the secret chambers of the creative mind. Their solutions are well-rounded, more sensible than those of people who rely solely upon reason as their mainstay. Gratitude unseals fountains of creativity, because a grateful person is relaxed. This allows him to take stock of his circumstances with an objective mind. A creative person often gets three-dimensional answers to his problems. —

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I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.

To wish to forget the hope because it wasn't realized, to try to cleanse your mind of the beautiful dream because it didn't come true, is to miss out on lie altogether, because life is designed to be lived in an alternation of hours of sunlight and hours of darkness.

People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch up with them.

Unconditional love embraces duality as one.

The peace we seek in the world is first found within.

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

so well is the harp of human feeling strung, that nothing but a crash that breaks every string can wholly mar its harmony;

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.

Our goal will be to have relationships with both men and women that do not operate at the expense of the self, and to have a self that does not operate at the expense of the other.

Remember that women have a long legacy of assuming responsibility for other people's feelings and for caring for others at the expense of the self. Some of us may care for others by picking up their dirty socks or doing their "feeling work"; some by being less strong, self-directed, and competent than we can be so as to avoid threatening those important to us. Changing our legacy is possible but not easy. Think small to begin with, but think.