Quotes About Balance

No caffeine always helps". Yes, I thought. Reward my virtue, give me life.

You forgot] the importance of the lopsided, the thing that's skewed a little. You were looking for balance, beautiful balance, equal parts, equal sides. I know this. I know you. But you should have been tracking the yen in its tics and quirks. The little quirk. The misshape...That's where the answer was, in your body, in your prostate.

The best good that you can possibly achieve is not good enough if you have to strain yourself all the time to reach it. A thing is only worth doing, and doing again and again, if you can do it rather easily, and get some joy out of it.

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

La prosperidad que la tecnología crea ya no es mayor que la intimidad que destruye.

Engineers and designers simultaneously know too much and too little. They know too much about the technology and too little about how other people live their live and do their activities.

Los recordatorios constituyen un buen ejemplo de las compensaciones relativas entre las funciones del conocimiento interno frente a las del externo.

A positive emotional state is ideal for creative thought, but it is not very well suited for getting things done.

key to winning the race is not to compete against machines but to compete with machines.

Make something too secure, and it becomes less secure.

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Overstimulation has been the real drawback. I need to find ways to stop thinking about analysis of algorithms, in order to do various other things that human beings ought to do.

Essays, like poems and stories and novels, marry heaven and hell. Contradiction is the cellular structure of life. Sometimes north dominates, sometimes south—but if the essay doesn't include contraries, however small they be, the essay fails.

When a long-desired baby is born, what joy! More happiness than we find in sex, more than we take in success, revenge, or wealth. But should the same infant die, would you measure the horror on the same rule? Grief weighs down the seesaw, joy cannot budget it.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.1   —President Gerald Ford

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

But playing your music as loud as you want and coming home drunk aren't real life. Real life, it turns out, is diapers and lawnmowers, decks that need painting, a wife that needs to be listened to, kids that need to be taught right from wrong, a checkbook, an oil change, a sunset behind a mountain, laughter at a kitchen table, too much wine, a chipped tooth, and a screaming child.

I used to get really ticked about preachers who talked too much about grace, because they tempted me to not be disciplined. I figured what people needed was a kick in the butt, and if I failed at godliness it was because those around me weren't trying hard enough.

The reality is this, though: a healthy person coupled with an unhealthy person will still result in an unhealthy relationship.

Relationships matter. They matter as much as exercise and nutrition. And not all relationships help us reach our goals. God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers. He gives them to us for the same reason he confused language at the Tower of Babel, to create chaos and deter us from investing too much energy in the gluttonous idols of self-absorption.

We were meant to enjoy life, not be drowned by it.

Para nosotros es difícil admitir que tenemos una naturaleza pecaminosa porque vivimos en este sistema de chequeos y balanzas. Si somos atrapados, seremos castigados. Pero eso no nos hace gente buena, solo nos hace dóciles.

I only say this because a positive evolution happened in my life when I realized healthy relationships happen best between healthy people.

How many relationships have been ruined by two people attempting to squeeze the Jesus out of each other?