Quotes About Balance

How should you read? What should the diet of your reading be? Read the best writers from all different periods; keep your reading of contemporaries in proportion—you do not want a steady diet of contemporary literature. You already belong to your time.

If I give all I have and you give all you have, isn't that a kind of equality? No, he says.

I should check now and then to make sure I am not alone too much, or unhappy with other people too often.

It should be so simple. You do what you can while he is awake, and then once he is asleep, you do what you can only when he is asleep, beginning with the most important thing. But it is not so simple.

Read the best writers from all different periods; keep your reading of contemporaries in proportion - you do not want a steady diet of contemporary literature. You already belong to your time.

Ah! se a gente pudesse se organizar com o equilíbrio das estrelas tão exatas nas suas constelações. Mas parece que a graça está na meia-luz. Na ambiguidade. E até as estrelas, pobrezinhas, equilibradas mas tremendo tanto na solidão.

It is far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.

There is evil in excess; there is evil in scant measure.

But order is not itself a virtue: it is only a means to an end. The end is general comfort and general convenience, and she never sacrifices the end to the means.

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay.

A life well lived requires careful planning in order to balance the financial and the non-financial, the economic and the psychological, the rational and the emotional. Getting

In the words of George Valliant, the study's pioneer, there are two pillars to happiness: one is love; the other is finding a way of coping with life that doesn't push love away. Earning more does make you happier, but love makes you happy.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.

The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation --must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.

While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.

Money makes the world go around love makes the spin worth the ride

Would you rather be right, or would you rather be happy?

Because we're not free when there are no boundaries-we're in great danger.

That's absurd," I said with a little laugh. "Nobody can read too much. That's like saying someone breathes too much.

But in a compromise, both people need to sacrifice something for the sake of the other person, and hopefully they'll both be happy with the outcome in the end. You're giving up being a pastor, but I'm not sure what exactly Caroline will be giving up.

That's absurd," I said with a little laugh. "Nobody can read too much. That's like saying someone breathes too much.

There are so many ways in which our hours can be claimed each day. What a shame that we only have one life.