Quotes About Balance

We want this to be a workplace, sure, but it should also be a humanplace

This was the common criminal pursuit of all contemporary humankind. Give my child an Ikea desk and twelve hours a day of sedentary typing. This will mean success for me, them, our family, our lineage. She would not pursue this. She would not subject her children to this. They would not seek these specious things, no. It was only about making them loved in a moment in the sun.

Running a business murders your ability to be the kind of friend people expect or deserve. Days and weeks go by and there can be no keeping up. Her best friends were her oldest friends, who did not expect constant contact. Everyone else was disappointed.

Happiness above can solve the sadness below.

should strive to have a mix of these four types of activities at some point during your daily and weekly routines: 1. Physical Activity 2. Mental Stimulation 3. Social Interaction 4. Fulfillment

To be firm without a complementary flexibility is to be a corpse. Conservative self-confidence without a liberal broad-mindedness becomes chauvinism, pedantry.

When we fail to live a life outside politics, we become a slave to it. While it's certainly important to be aware of all the issues I've discussed here, it's way more important to live a well-rounded, fully-realized life that's regularly removed from all the drama. In order to do this, we must learn to distinguish between being politically engaged and politically obsessed.

Remember to serve the light side of the Force. Though you will never wield a lightsaber or heal the sick, you have some light within you. Be true to that light.

There is another thing about the Chinese: they do not like to have unfriendly powers on either side of them.

There is usually an inverse relationship between how much something is on your mind and how much it's getting done.

Every now and then go away and have a little relaxation. To remain constantly at work will diminish your judgment. Go some distance away, because work will be in perspective and a lack of harmony is more readily seen.

We fought so hard against the small things that we became small ourselves. —EUGENE O'NEILL

Too much information creates the same result as too little: you don't have what you need, when and in the way you need it.

most stress they experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.

I would not give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity. —Oliver Wendell Holmes

Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does. Responding inappropriately to your e-mail, your thoughts about what you need to do, your children, or your boss will lead to less effective results than you'd like. Most people give either more or less attention to things than they deserve, simply because they don't operate with a mind like water.

This would be a Zen-like state of productivity, in which you deal with what's present from a perspective that is both detached and fully engaged.

Rule your mind or it will rule you. —Horace

Water is what it is, and does what it does. It can overwhelm, but it's not overwhelmed. It can be still, but it is not impatient. It can be forced to change course, but it is not frustrated.

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You've got to think about the big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

Not being aware of all you have to do is much like having a credit card for which you don't know the balance or the limit - it's a lot easier to be irresponsible.