Quotes About Balance

I believe in living healthily and sustainably, and looking to nature for renewal and inspiration.

Treasure the beauty of youthful life and the wisdom of adulthood.

Nature is cheaper than therapy.

If you are in doubt about what's balanced, look to the natural world. Animals know the right paths.

If you say merit does not matter but miracles or favor matters, you are equally destroying yourself and nation.

The constant tug between nature and civilization is what keeps on our toes. Though of course, that did rather beg the question of how you defined nature and how you defined civilization.

Harmony is about bringing things into balance and knowing how to go from sunrise to sunset. Mother Nature teaches this to us, in so many ways, each and every day.

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty

The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self-mastery.

Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom and lakes die.

Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.

A proper respect for nature means that you can't pollute the air, poison the rivers and chop down the forests indiscriminately without suffering greatly.

Nature can do more than physicians.

Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.

Parenting is a constant struggle between making your kids life better and ruining your own.

I figure if the kids are alive at the end of the day, I've done my job.

Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. Its about being there at big moments, but its also just the consistency of decision making. And its routine.

OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.