Quotes About Balance

We spend the first 12 months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk, and the next 12 months telling them to sit down and be quiet.

During this week, Ragan has experience a bit of insecurity with me, the result of my being quieter than usual, which he interprets as being a withdrawal from him. "No," I countered, "it is a withdrawal into myself." I do not think the same need exists in him. Quiet can be the two of us reading silently. But he prefers that I be nearby. I need regular time without anybody else around in order to feel restored.

But there's not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. There's too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband, spending time alone, which I have very little of.

I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else.

man's place in the universe is somewhere between the beasts and the angels, but, because of the divine image planted in him, there are no limits to what man can accomplish....

When you're hurrying around too quickly," he had said, "there's a part of the world you can't see. If, for example, you're taking a wrong direction in your life, it's only when you stop and look at things clearly that you can revise your direction and take a more proper course. Then message of Zen is that in order to find ourselves, we've got to learn to stop.

greatest surprises I have encountered has been that the people who seem wisest about the necessity of placing limits on the newest technologies are, often, precisely the ones who helped develop those technologies, which have bulldozed over so many of the limits of old. The very people, in short, who have worked to speed up the world are the same ones most sensitive to the virtue of slowing down.

many years ago, it was access to information and movement that seemed our greatest luxury; nowadays it's often freedom from information, the chance to sit still, that feels like the ultimate prize.

The quintessential Japanese balance, I thought: to surrender all of yourself to an illusion, and yet somewhere, in some part of yourself, to know all the while that it is an illusion.

And the question at the heart of every one was as simple as it was unanswerable: how make peace and passion rhyme?

It's all really very simple. You don't have to choose between being kind to yourself and others. It's one and the same.

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

One is often guilty by being too just.

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

Peace is produced by war.

I quickly laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry.

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.

Mine is the least fat diet in the world.

I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.

For us, nature's final accomplishment is contemplation, becoming aware, and a way of living in harmony with nature.