Quotes About Balance

Under one roof, courtesans and monks asleep— moon and bush clover

Dragonfly can't decide which blade of grass to land on

Sparrows in eaves, mice in ceiling - celestial music.

How overwhelming the world could seem when you were thrust into the guts of it. How little power you realized human beings actually had compared with the earth.

For the only time homeostasis fails is when we are no longer alive.

Running too hard too often is the single most common and detrimental mistake in the sport.

unless a runner is systematically held back, he will more often than not run too hard on easy days and unwittingly sabotage his training plan.

Your physical capacities are only part of the big picture," he told the gathering. "If your spirit is happy and strong, then you're stable under pressure.

Refined grains (regular old spaghetti being an example), fatty meats (hard salami), sweets (blueberry pie), and fried foods (bacon) are not poisonous. They are foods that just happen to be less wholesome than some other foods. There

With great leverage comes great justice.

Time and effort can get you anything you want in the world. But nothing in the world can get you more time.

I'll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.

You can be a depressive and be happy, just as you can be a sober alcoholic.

Just when you feel you have no time to relax, know that this is the moment you most need to make time to relax.

We often find ourselves wishing for more hours in the day, but that wouldn't help anything. The problem, clearly, isn't that we have a shortage of time. It's more that we have an overload of everything else.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.' —Sylvia Plath

I feel we need to stop seeing mental and physical health as either/or and more as a both/and situation. There is no difference. We are mental. We are physical. We are not split up into unrelated sections. We are not an existential department store. We are everything at once.

Equidistant. Not aligned to one bank or the other...caught in the middle. Struggling, flailing, just trying to survive while not knowing which way to go. Which path to commit to without regret.

It sometimes feels as if we have temporarily solved the problem of scarcity and replaced it with the problem of excess.

One day, if you get into a position of power, tell people this: just because you can, it doesn't mean you should. There is a power and a beauty in unproved conjectures, unkissed lips and unpicked flowers.

Aim not to get more stuff done. Aim to have less stuff to do. Be a work minimalist. Minimalism is about doing more with less. So much of working life seems to be about doing less with more. Activity isn't always the same as achievement.

Your mind is a galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile.

Don't worry about being angry. Worry when being angry becomes impossible. Because then you have been consumed.

Life can sometimes feel like an overproduced song, with a cacophony of a hundred instruments playing all at once. Sometimes the song sounds better stripped back to just a guitar and a voice. Sometimes, when a song has too much happening, it's hard to hear the song at all.