Quotes About Balance

Instant availability without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.

Lao Tzu wrote: "Know the personal, yet keep to the impersonal: Accept the world as it is. Then the Tao will be luminous inside you, and you will return to the Uncarved Block." There is so much philosophy packed into this verse that it summarizes central teachings about happiness from three great ancient traditions: those not only from Taoism, but also from Buddhism and Stoicism

Your happiness does not depend so much on what kind of body you have, but on how well you take care of it.

Manando del Tao, el consejo del I Ching apela a nuestro mejor yo, despertando y confiriendo poderes a nuestro Sabio Interior. Si

There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

There's a bit of magic in everything And then some loss to even things out.

You're going to reap just what you sow. Perfect Day

moderate alcohol consumption is linked to a long list of health benefits. We'll leave it to others to decide if those health benefits come from the alcohol itself or the fact that moderate drinkers tend to do lots of things moderately, and are more likely to have the education and socioeconomic status linked to good health.

Anger is not wrong. But if anger is uncontrolled, stuffed, misplaced, or given full vent, then anger can do us a lot of harm.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

On the whole it may be said that Scripture does not exalt one attribute of God at the expense of the others, but represents them as existing in perfect harmony in the Divine Being.

When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

When a man feels that he cannot leave his work, it is a sure sign of an impending collapse.

We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasured.

Always remember, you can never finish work, but work can finish you.

All that I would like to be is human, having a share in a civilized, articulate and well-adjusted community where the mind is given its due but the body is not distrusted

It was not a matter of choosing sides, it was a matter of rising above the whole concept of sideness.

als ge de roman vergelijkt met het Leven ziet ge dat het niet veel meer is dan lap-en-vliegwerk, en heeft het de meer dan frappante gelijkenis met de acrobatie van de clown die de koorddanser achternakomt, maar ginds in de hoge nok van het cirkus, al wankelend en al bewust gekke gebaren makend, eveneens plots kan uitglijden ...

Louis Sébastien Mercier

You only have one life. You should never be too busy to save it.