Quotes About Balance

I just don't know. Maybe I'm good, but that goddamn scale would hesitate a long time before tilting that way.

Because I know that everything we have is balanced on such a delicate web of incidence and coincidence.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

If insanity is contagious, and it is, so is sanity. Sanity is more contagious than insanity. It's just that there aren't enough carriers. Become a source of infectious sanity.

We have forgotten how to flex two mental muscles at the same time: the muscle of moral conviction and the muscle of compassion to all regardless of their morality.

between Don Quixote the mystic and Sancho Panza the sensualist there is no middle ground.

a nation in which the centralized power and the separate communities work only to nullify each other.

Whatever is, is in its causes just; But purblind man Sees but a part o' th' chain; the nearest link; His eyes not carrying to that equal beam That poises all above.

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.

Despite what many modern educators would say, this is not a psychological disturbance brought on by violent television or chemical imbalance. Aggression is part of the masculine design; we are hardwired for it.

The balancing act we parents attempt is convincing our children: 1. You are loved more than you can imagine. 2. The world does not revolve around you.

Simone Weil was absolutely right- beauty and affliction are the only two things that can pierce our hearts. Because this is so true, we must have a measure of beauty in our lives proportionate to our affliction. No more. Much more. Is this not God's prescription for us? Just take a look around.

When your phone chirps or vibrates, don't react. Make it wait till you pick it up. In these small ways I'm making my phone a tool again, something that serves me instead of the other way around.

My soul just can't do life at the speed of smartphones. But I was asking it to; everybody's asking theirs to.

The beauty is that as you become more whole, you can become holier. And as you become holier, you can become more whole.

You are never a great man when you have more mind than heart. —BEAUCHENE

If I've lost the capacity for, and the enjoyment of relationship, I know things are deeply off in my soul.

Turn your phone off at 8:00 p.m. Give yourself some evening time for real things. And banish all technology from your bedroom.

We're all living in the shadow of that infamous icon, "The Proverbs 31 Woman," whose life is so busy I wonder, when does she have time for friendships, for taking walks, or reading good books? Her light never goes out at night? When does she have sex? Somehow she has sanctified the shame most women live under, biblical proof that yet again we don't measure up. Is that supposed to be godly—that sense that you are a failure as a woman?

the outer life we live from ought (I ought to do this) rather than from desire (I want to do this) and management substitutes for mystery.

Somehow, somewhere between our youth and yesterday, efficiency has taken the place of adventure.

Given the right plan, everything in life can be managed . . . except your heart.

It is not only the unit vote for the Presidency we are talking about, but a whole solar system of governmental power. If it is proposed to change the balance of power of one of the elements of the solar system, it is necessary to consider the others.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.