Quotes About Balance

Don't lose sight of the fact that hip and legs drive the horse forward and the hands merely channel this power by gentle rein aids.

You gotta give yourself oxygen before you can give it to anyone else. I have to put my own mask on first.

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing -- and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.

Kabat-Zinn writes, "You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

Oh, dear--did I forget to mention that you can, indeed, have it all, but you need a lot of help!

I do think back,' Mom told me, 'on my wonderful headmistress at Brearly, the one who told us we could have everything we wanted.... And then, years later, I went back for a reunion, and I told the headmistress that I, indeed, managed to have it all--a husband, a career, three children--but that I was tired all the time, exhausted in fact. And she said, 'Oh, dear--did I forget to mention that you can, indeed, have it all, but you need a lot of help!

We were terrified to stop, stop anything, and admit that something was wrong. Activity, frenzied activity, seemed to be the thing we all felt we needed. Only Dad slowed down, and that wasn't until he was trapped in a hospital getting intravenous antibiotics. Everything would be all right, everything would be possible, anything could be salvaged or averted, as long as we all kept running around.

Why did I always need to do something, like referring one person to another, just for the sake of doing something, when sometimes, perhaps, it was better to do nothing?

The greatest thing about a nap is that it gives you two days for the price of one. You have the whole day before the nap, and when you wake up you have a whole day ahead of you.

Kabat-Zinn writes, "You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." OBAMA

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

He longed for a minute that didn't matter: perhaps for time to take a nap or watch something silly on television without feeling guilt or regret. He needed relief from the feeling that he was wasting precious time, not the added pressure of life's greatest to-do list. I now realize that humans require down time. Quiet time is necessary to process all that happens to us on a daily basis—let alone over the course of a life.

Smile, but keep your powder dry.

I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.

Ik heb tot dusver ondervonden dat op deze tocht niets voortdurend erger wordt dan het al is. Na klimmen volgt afdalen, regen houdt ook wel weer eens op, moeras wordt opgevolgd door droog terrein en zelfs de stenen waarop ik mijn enkels verzwik, zijn soms over lange afstanden afwezig. Kortom: net als altijd in het leven, een soort specifiek gemiddelde van ellende.

Peace without justice is tyranny.

Solitude is very sad, Too much company twice as bad.

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

Lao Tzu observed that "he who knows contentment is rich.")

we must take care to be "the user, but not the slave, of the gifts of Fortune.