Quotes About Balance

It makes far better sense to reshape ourselves to fit a finite planet than to attempt to reshape the planet to fit our infinite wants

Manners matter as this author memorably illustrates. Eleanor Roosevelt stubbornly kept her clout behind Adlai Stevenson was an almost visceral resistance to John F. Kennedy's charms as a newcomer to power. The sudden death of Eleanor's granddaughter shortly before JFK was to meet with her suggested that rapprochement was impossible. Kennedy's genuine gentle manners toward the grieving former first lady won her over and may have shifted the balance in an extremely close election.

of karma," or "You get what you give," or "You reap what you sow.

in the life of every man there was one great good fortune and one misfortune of equal force.

The other thing about giving feedback is that you don't do it all day, every day. It's got to be in small doses at the right moment.

It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters.

It's not lost on me that I'm so busy recording life, I don't have time to really live it. I've become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking at the magnificent Brueghel, take a picture of it, reducing it from art to proof. It's not "Look what Brueghel did, painted this masterpiece" but "Look what I did, went to Rotterdam and stood in front of a Brueghel painting!

She knew what my mother did not: either you want a clean floor or you want to use a mop, but you can't have both.

It's not lost on me that I'm so busy recording life, I don't have time to really live it.

Why is it some people can manage a thing like a Fitbit, while others go off the rails and allow it to rule, and perhaps even ruin, their lives?

My sister is not dating anyone–a good thing, as she's got way too much time on her hands. And that, I think, is the number one reason so many relationships fail. Too much free time, and too much time together. (P. 157)

One burner represents your family, one is your friends, the third is your health, and the fourth is your work.

Real" foods are thus more effective than supplements, and they are more effective in combination than when eaten separately.

When we respect the needs and bodies of the animals that feed us, our own bodies are better balanced

You'll never have enough time to work on a paid client project.

maybe people gave God too many alls to juggle.

friends will be much apart.they will respect more other's privacy than their communion.

Qué cerca está siempre el dolor del placer.

The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind.

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom,'" Massingill quoted. "'A republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.' I don't remember the source.

But the universe wasn't really unfair, she thought, and her mouth quirked. It just didn't give much of a damn one way or the other.

I can't say for certain. I can paper over the cracks for a while, maybe even maintain a facade of affluence, by robbing Peter to pay Paul

if I've learned one thing over the years, it's that when it comes down to raw emotion against reason, emotion wins.

She'd heard so many tales about the way love could save one's sanity; no one had ever told her hate could do the same.