Quotes About Balance

I mean, it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunise you against sadness. And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness.

Sometimes the links between depression, anxiety, and productivity are undeniable.

Dedicamos tanto tiempo a desear que nuestras vidas sean distintas, a compararnos con otras personas , con otras versiones de nosotros mismos... Cuando realmente todas las vidas tienen cierto grado de cosas buenas y cierto grado de cosas malas

I realized that if getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered

Check your emotional armour is actually protecting you, and not so heavy you can't move.

Maybe to be truly in tune with the modern world means anxiety is inevitable

How can we live in a mad world without going mad ourselves?

It is better to let people down than to blow yourself up.

Because, within the structure of the rules, you need to be free.

Equidistante. Não alinhada a uma margem nem à outra. Era assim que ela havia se sentido na maior parte da vida. Presa bem no meio. Lutando, se debatendo, simplesmente tentando sobreviver sem saber para onde ir. Nem com que caminho se comprometer sem arrependimentos.

Alcohol in the evening is very enjoyable. Hangovers in the morning are very unpleasant. At some point you have to choose: evenings or mornings.

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.

how can we live in a mad world without ourselves going mad?

we spend so much time wishing our lives were different, comparing ourselves to other people and to other versions of ourselves, when really most lives contain degrees of good and degrees of bad.

it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunise you against sadness. And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can't have one without the other.

We have handed over our instincts to the hands of a clock. Increasingly, we serve time rather than time serving us. We fret about time. We wonder where time has gone. We are obsessed with time.

temporarily solved the problem of scarcity and replaced it with the problem of excess.

One initial proposal I wanted to put to them was to swap things over. For instance, have five fun days and two not-fun days. That way – call me a mathematical genius – they would have more fun.

mental well-being counts as much as physical well-being—indeed, that it is part of physical well-being.

We need to find out what is good for us, and leave the rest.

I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want.

Check how a tweet/photo/status update is going down (and keep checking). Want to go offline, without going offline.

how can we live in a mad world without ourselves going mad? News from a nervous planet As I began researching I quickly found some attention

Viata e ceea ce ramane cand dai la o parte toate porcariile alea sau, cand le ignori o vreme.