Quotes About Balance

Self-discipline is when your highest desires rule your lesser desires, not through resistance, but through loving action grounded in understanding and compassion.

The superior man is not seeking for fulfillment through work and woman, because he is already full. For him

The wilderness is a place of rest—not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to move, to round the next bend. The rest comes in the isolation from distractions, in the slowing of the daily centrifugal forces that keep us off balance.

The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.

Just because I love her, it doesn't mean that I love you less.

That's a strange hobby for a Church Knight. God hired me as a fighting man, Sparhawk, not as a monk. I fight whenever He tells me to, but the rest of my time is my own.

Le guerre sono belle, ma tendono a interferire con faccende più importanti.

Life's much more pleasing when you don't have to spend all of your time thinking.

La vita è molto più gradevole se non si passa tutto il tempo a pensare.

Selon Chondler, conclut-il, il n'existe qu'une seule vertu : la modération. Encore ne faut-il pas la pratiquer avec excès.

Readers crave something different, but not completely different.

En todas estas habilidades primero tenemos que aprender a «domar» nuestra mente y nuestras emociones. No podremos escuchar si nuestra mente divaga y nos impide concentrarnos. No podremos

No hemos venido a esta vida a lograr metas, hemos venido para recordar que nuestra verdadera esencia es de paz y tranquilidad.

Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.

Aren't there parts of ourselves that are just better left unfed?

Ortho Stice played with a kind of rigid, liquid grace, like a panther in a back-brace.

When I was drunk I wanted to get sober and when I was sober I wanted to get drunk,' John L. says; 'I lived that way for years, and I submit to you that's not livin that's a fuckin death-in-life.

The core accounting equation A = L + E can be dissolved and reshuffled into everything from E = A - L to beyond.

He'd cure himself by excess.

The kid has to learn by his own experience how to learn to balance the short- and long-term pursuit of what he wants.' 'He must be freely enlightened to self.' 'This is the crux of the educational system you find so appalling. Not to teach what to desire. To teach how to be free. To teach how to make knowledgeable choices about pleasure and delay and the kid's overall down-the-road maximal interests.

you are in motion a prince and in repose a sage.

err on the side of neutrality

because the technology is going to get better and better, and it's going to get easier and easier and more and more convenient and more pleasurable to sit alone with images on a screen given to us by people who do not love us but want our money . . that's fine, in low doses, but if it's the basic main staple of your diet, you're going to die. In a very meaningful way, you're going to die.