Quotes About Balance

You can't win the race of fulfillment running on the track of achievement.

Money is ultimately never enough compensation for investing one's time and energy. There must be a sense of purpose, meaning, and accomplishment.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart." — Jonathan Swift

The secret to creating a career that is both nurturing to the soul and the pocketbook is, as theologian Frederick Buechner said, to find where "your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."1 There you will find a job, a career, a business, and a life worth living. We cannot talk ourselves into doing something we do not inherently enjoy, no matter how spiritual that something may appear to those around us.

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life." —Author Unknown

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both. —James Michener

I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

The seasons do not push one another; neither do clouds race the wind across the sky. All things happen in their own good time.

of praise in the faces around you. When you fall short of others' expectations, you replay your failures again and again. On your better days, your successes almost seem to balance your screwups. On your darker days, you suspect that your shortcomings have forever skewed everyone's opinion of you — even God's — and you wonder what it will take to regain God's good

Remember to take your time. There is no need to rush.

Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

People who spend most of their time putting out fires are usually also the arsonists.

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option." —attributed to Mark Twain

Days and nights among the trees is not time off the books. It is not a subtraction from the days of life but an addition to them.

Expect the best, prepare for the worst. Right?" "As long as a person doesn't spend all their time preparing for the worst and miss when they stumble across the best.

And so the light that warms us all is carefully poured from day to night and back again, in a mysterious song of balance and shared purpose. [from Princess Ruby And The Moonman]

If a self-organizing system becomes too static, it runs down; if it becomes too chaotic, it breaks apart.

Your job as a writer is to say as truthfully as you can what you see and how you feel. Writing is a high-wire act. It's best not to look at the other circus performers but to attend to the wire.

Hay muchísimo en juego. La globalización mal gestionada está teniendo importantes consecuencias, no sólo en Estados Unidos, sino también en el resto del mundo desarrollado —en especial en Europa— y en los países con ingresos bajos y medios en los que viven la mayoría de los trabajadores del mundo. Es de capital importancia lograr un equilibrio entre la apertura económica y el derecho a la gestión del espacio político.

According to ayurveda, we become what we surround ourselves with. And so it stands to reason that we have to be discerning about what we surround ourselves with." Steve Cope [p. 85]

To be honest, when I'm home, every day is a Friday for me. It doesn't really matter what day it is for me. A lot of my friends actually have time off during the week, and so it doesn't prohibit me from enjoying myself when I am home on a Monday or a Tuesday.

It's all about eating real food! Sweet potatoes come from the ground, maple syrup comes out of a tree, carrots grow in the dirt, bees make honey, and hopefully we can all find more and more pasture-raised, grain-free, cruelty-free animals for protein. Because what our animals eat becomes what we eat, too. I don't see ever getting too far from these principles. Real food is medicine, and I like to put the highest-quality food into the only body I will ever have.

It's hard to feel down when you're out in the natural world, and there's a reason for that. Scientists would call it quantum physics,