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Quotes About Balance

When there's time for everything, there's value in nothing.'
~ Unknown
No matter how much you have, that voice of "more would be better" drives you to make acquisition the name of your game. Greed is one of the many strings in the human heart, and it can be pro-survival, but unchecked by a sense of fairness, balance, and love, it can gut our capacity for joy.
~ Vicki Robin
As people and as a planet we suffer from upward mobility and downward nobility.
~ Vicki Robin
karoshi (death by overwork).
~ Vicki Robin
Getting Away As your handling of money gets clearer and your life becomes more satisfying, you will have less of a need to "vacate." Consider
~ Vicki Robin
Learn to choose quality of life over standard of living.
~ Vicki Robin
is a way to approach life so that when asked, "Your money or your life?" you say, "I'll take both, thank you.
~ Vicki Robin
The bottom line is that we think we work to pay the bills—but we spend more than we make on more than we need, which sends us back to work to get the money to spend to get more stuff—that sends us back to work again!
~ Vicki Robin
Everything in the community of life gives back 100 percent - except the humans.
~ Vicki Robin
Money is something we choose to trade our life energy for.
~ Vicki Robin
four rules for getting off the diet-go-round: Eat when you're hungry. Eat exactly what your body wants. Eat each bite consciously. Stop when your body has had enough.1 Very simple. All you have to do is be conscious
~ Vicki Robin
As you take your eyes off the false prize (of more, better, and different stuff), you put them on the real prizes: friends, family, sharing, caring, learning, meeting challenges, intimacy, rest, and being present, connected, and respected. In other words, those best things in life that are free. Like all things natural, building this wealth takes time, attention, patience, and reciprocity (that volleying of giving and receiving that builds relationships).
~ Vicki Robin
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
~ Victor Borge
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
~ Victor Borge
One persons left hand, will cost a friend their right hand.
~ Unknown
Brasley still drank too much and liked his women, but at least he paced himself now, walking the path to self-destruction instead of sprinting down it at full speed.
~ Unknown
To rise at six, to dine at ten,To sup at six, to sleep at ten,Makes a man live for ten times ten.
~ Victor Hugo
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
~ Victor Hugo
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
~ Victor Hugo
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
~ Unknown
The universe is not fine-tuned to us; we are fine-tuned to our particular universe.
~ Victor J. Stenger
I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
~ Victoria Beckham
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
~ Alice Walker
May you always walk in Beauty.
~ Black Elk