Quotes About Balance

We should recognize the reality that just because something is good is not sufficient reason for doing it. The number of good things we can do far exceeds the time available to accomplish them.

Just because something is good is not a sufficient reason for doing it. The number of good things we can do far exceeds the time available to accomplish them. Some things are better than good, and these are the things that should command priority attention in our lives.

We should be careful not to exhaust our available time on things that are merely good and leave time for that which is better or best.

He was too busy checking out and checking in, making and breaking plans, buying and losing cell phones, playing computer games and pool, looking at stock quotes, and living the chaotic life that effectively took up all his energy and time.

I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.

Do you think me weak, flawed? Do you hate me for setting my Inquisitorial role above the needs of one agonised being?

The levelling glories of field artillery,' he said, 'beneath which all things are rendered equal.

Death does not discriminate. It is so even handed, so scrupulously fair, that it seems not fair at all. - Eeron Kleve, Iron Hand's Captain

k?lo'smi lokaksayakrt pravrddho lok?nsam?hartumiha pravrttah.

Religion + Good Works = Good Works Solve for Religion.

But this home over here: it needed paint but had flowers neatly planted all the way around it. That one over there had a tire swing out front, tied to a fat magnolia tree. Behind another, a lush vegetable garden. You got to fight not to give into despair, he told himself. You got to see the good that's mixed in with the bad.

Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier.

Truth is important, but truth at the cost of loving relationships is not Christianity. And relationships that ignore truth will lose integrity sooner or later.

we've built a society that gets what it needs from the Earth and ecosystems but does far too little to maintain the health of the ecosystems we depend on, which are quite literally the life-support systems of the planet.

This means that workers can expect to get more money as society becomes more advanced, but only because more money is produced. As more of it is produced, it skews the balance of supply vs. demand and so causes inflation – it is as if money itself gets cheaper. So the rate at which wages increase will tend to be the same as the rate of inflation – nominal but never real, in economic terms.

The urge to cram the maximum number of activities into the minimum amount of time, notes French cultural commentator Francois Tournier, makes us "prisoners of the present… If we do not slow down, we risk becoming alienated from our own future.

I BELIEVE IN THE 50-PERCENT THEORY. Half the time things are better than normal; the other half, they are worse. I believe life is a pendulum swing.

I can always feel better, look better, do better. I can learn more, sell more, buy more. I can do more, and do it faster. But what is the price of this perfection? Joy.

be here teaching you, I could be home sitting on my comfortable

Cats use their tails as a way of balancing; they can walk with each foot in a line, along the top of a fence or on narrow paths.

If you want to do something today to radically improve the United States of America, walk on the right.

When the angry jerking about and spitting stops, the serenity starts.

When a mother "protects" a son by routinely correcting his father's style to match her own, she diminishes the opportunity for a genuine and uniquely valuable quality of parenting.

expectations, rules, and requests for compliance often drives the best-intentioned parents over the edge.