Quotes About Balance

Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.

Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure: 1. Acceptance 2. Understanding 3. Appreciation Remove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart. Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions? So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole.

You cannot be fair to others without first being fair to yourself. Know that a well-honed sense of justice is a measure of personal experience, and all experience is a measure of self. Know that the highest expression of justice is mercy. Thus, as the supreme judge in your own court, you must have compassion for yourself. Otherwise, cede your gavel.

Neither sugar nor salt tastes particularly good by itself. Each is at its best when used to season other things. Love is the same way. Use it to "season" people.

The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox. The florist will sigh and add a wall divider and proper soil to both sides. The grandparent will move the flowerbox halfway out of the sun. The child will turn it around properly so that the fern is in the shade, and not the cactus. The moral of the story? Kids are smart.

Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole. Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead. Allow both passion and courtesy into your life in equal measure, and be complete.

Money is like fire. It is only good when there's just the right amount of it, when it's properly contained and under your control.

Above all, let's hope we never take ourselves too seriously.

Le succès est peu de choses, auprès d'une conscience en repos.

Anyone can work, but allowing the work to take effect demands a good recovery plan.

The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.

You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.

Rushing emotions have no more real power to sweep you away than a tiny brook can move a boulder.

For where there is heaven, there can also be hell.

We're endangered by our own success.

I now know the same secret that Michelle does: in order to have it all we can't do it all.

good times and bad times are like the sun and moon. You usually see one and not the other, and yet you know that both are always there. Therefore, she concluded, when your fortunes are riding high, you shouldn't feel arrogant, and when they're low, you shouldn't feel depressed.

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

You must, however, not lose your sense of humor, which is also a great item in your success. Sense of humor is the counterweight for your misfortunes which you will meet from time to time, from the smallest to the biggest ... If you take anything seriously without any sense of humor and you should happen to fail, it will be the beginning of your downfall.

A boy never outgrows his need for adventure. As mothers, we will need to develop a healthy balance when it comes to cultivating our sons' innate sense of adventure without overprotecting them in the process or, for that matter, not protecting them at all.

When we say yes to too many other things, we are actually saying no to God. Only God can bring the rest and satisfaction our souls crave.

Everything has its place. Let in only those things that are greatly desired, no more and no less. That's how to make sense of the world, and the only real way to achieve happiness.'

You call this a catastrophe, but take it from me, the line between a catastrophe and a miracle is a fine one.'