Quotes About Balance

Yet whether wisdom can be any more profitably pursued than happiness is a question.

It may be that a man has only a given power of decision, and if he uses it all up, making vital choices every day in his studio, he has none left for everyday life.

Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

having too many ideas is not always a good thing.

Whoever invented the concept of fairness, anyway? Isn't everything easier if you simply get rid of the idea of justice altogether? You think the quantity of pleasure, the degree of suffering is constant among all men?

his behavior there was a perfect balance between gentleness and violence that gave her particular delight.

The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to command her.

There will come a day of reckoning... All this pleasure will have to be paid for, and it will be terrible.

if we constructed a man consisting of virtues only, would not that fellow be the most unbearable bore in the world, wearisome beyond description?

Between always and never

Le mal même comporte son bien qu'il ne faut pas laisser perdre

Order is the pleasure of the reason; but disorder is the delight of the imagination.

People who really believe that they can't afford the time to train don't have their priorities right. Given the benefits to your health, strength and life in general, you need to ask yourself whether you can afford not to train!

Being able to flip up against a wall and start doing handstand pushups is cool.

Getting your ass away from the gym is probably the number one thing you can do to start kicking your gains up a notch.

with a look on her face that said she had a lot of plates to juggle, but as long as you were prepared to be spun, everything would be fine.

It takes a while to become one of God's Good Women, and in the process you learn that you can't avoid every mistake or please everyone. There simply isn't time to be that uptight and rigid. God designed limits to your time, treasure, and talents so you wouldn't squander your life away. Recognizing your limited time here on earth can motivate you to say, "Good-bye, perfectionism, I don't have time for you!

The goal when emulating the real Jesus is to become both sweet and salty, both gracious and firm.

Even Jesus gave people a dose of Vitamin No sometimes.

Choosing to please [God] more than anyone else guarantees that occasionally you will make other people unhappy, including family and friends.

We are to live with heavenly things in mind and with our feet firmly on the ground. We won't be redemptive forces for good if we don't grasp this, and our spiritual growth will be truncated. Personal piety alone won't cut it, but marry piety to shrewdness, as Jesus did, and you're on your way, Good Guy.

Yes, it's crucial to speak the truth in love, but that doesn't mean that you spill your guts

Her spiritual training conspires against her as well, having subtly told her that having human wants and needs is somehow worldly, selfish, and even unchristian.

niceness stems from neutrality and weakness