Quotes About Balance

But managing your money does not depend upon becoming wealthy or declaring vows of poverty. Rather, it is about creating stability and sufficiency—a balanced flow of monetary energy through your life. This kind of management liberates you from survival issues, so that money concerns no longer occupy your mind or monopolize your attention.

As you manage your money, you manage your life.

If you became wealthy and would nevertheless spend some of your time doing just what you now do for a living, you are fortunate indeed.

The sunset was that long, achingly beautiful balance of stillness in which the sun seemed to hover like a red balloon above the western horizon, the entire sky catching fire from the death of day; a sunset unique to the American Midwest and ignored by most of its inhabitants. The twilight brought the promise of coolness and the certain threat of night.

The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

He was, in other words, a careful man with careless impulses.

it had long been accepted that if a species put mankind on its food-chain menu the species would be extinct before long.

Philosophical poetry by moonlight was all right, but guns that shot straight and true were a necessity.

You're upsetting a delicate balance of corruption that has existed here for centuries.

Was I a swordsman then? sends Johnny. Or a poet? [Yes There is never one without the other]

To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes.

The problem with being passionately in love, I thought, is that it deprives you of too much sleep.

judiciously

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Always lists to be made, as if writing items in neat vertical rows might stave off randomness and chaos.

I've never heard a writer feel that way about a device with a screen. Oh sure, they're functional, practical. We would be lost without them. But just as we need to feel our feet on the earth, smell and taste the world around us, the pen scratching against the page, sensory and slow, is the difference between looking at a high-definition picture of a flower and holding that very same flower in your palm, feeling the brush of its petals, the color of its stamen rubbing off on your fingers.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror," Rilke wrote. Nearly

But gratitude and trauma weren't mutually exclusive.

My newfound awareness was both gauntlet and gift. The choice wasn't to see it as one or the other. It was to embrace both.

it feels as if mountain pose is the most challenging of all yoga poses. To be still. To be grounded. To claim one's place in the world.

I want a stable man in my life. One who will be there, but will give me enough room to be free, to breathe, to live. And one I can love, but not sacrifice my soul for.

One cannot be exploited or thwarted from nine to five, then come home and feel loving and lovable.

All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attended them

I could almost set down as many extravagant things done in the excess of their joy as of their grief; but that would be to lessen the value of it.