Quotes About Balance

Words have power", he said intensely. "They have a life of their own. They shift the balance of the world.

I see only light, Daddo." "Then I fear for you, my son. For a man who sees only light will stumble over the things that lie in shadows." "Then does a man who looks only at shadows not also stumble, for lack of seeing light?

Why this relentless pull to the left and to the right, as if a path zigzagging through perilous ravines and precipitous heights were a better way? It was not a better way. He knew it, and yet the tug remained.

There's a dialogue between the self and the soul", he said. "They aren't enemies. More like two lenses trying to get in focus.

Effective leaders strike the right balance between doing (making things happen) and being (observing and reflecting).

leaders strike the right balance between doing (making things happen) and being (observing and reflecting).

Yet after each dramatic departure, the Earth's "equipoise" has always recovered and the climate restored to normal. As Bjornerud puts it, "Earth has had fevers and chills but has suffered no malady so extreme that its climatic immune system could not ultimately overcome it."30

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. Aldous Huxley

Quality is just a word, and an empty word at that, if it doesn't include harmony, balance, passion, intention, attention. "Continuous improvement for its own sake is a waste of time. "Life is what a business is about, and life is what this work is about. Coming to grips with oneself, in the face of an incredibly complex world that can teach us if we're open to learn.

Once you recognize that the purpose of your life is not to serve your business, but that the primary purpose of your business is to serve your life, you can then go to work on your business, rather than in it, with a full understanding of why it is absolutely necessary for you to do so.

We must love God more than the world, yet if we truly love God, we will also love the world, on his behalf. God matters more than the world, but because he loves it, the world now matters.

EVERYTHING COUNTS, BUT SOME THINGS COUNT MORE. THEY JUST DO. I want my children to flourish in every way. I hope they read broadly, eat well, exercise, and get along with others. But most of all, I pray that they love Jesus. Everything counts, but some things count more. They just do. If God is the source of all value, then everything matters, and those activities that focus most on him matter most of all.

And that's a problem. This excellent emphasis on the higher purpose of heaven often stifles the simple pleasures of earth.

A good life is like good jazz: it has rhythm.

A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.'

People never seemed to notice that, by saving time, they were losing something else. No one cared to admit that life was becoming ever poorer, bleaker and more monotonous. The ones who felt this most keenly were the children, because no one had time for them any more. But time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart. And the more people saved, the less they had.

You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.

Eat more food early in the day and less later on. Try to eat only in a seven- or eight-hour window. Eat only when the sun is up and eat 75 percent of your calories seven or more hours before your planned bedtime.

Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it's worthwhile to face it occasionally. The further we push aloneness away, the less are we able to cope with it, and the more terrifying it gets.

He was confounded by the idea that passing the prime of your life in a cubicle, spending hours a day at a computer, in exchange for money, was considered acceptable, but relaxing in a tent in the woods was disturbed. Observing the trees was indolent; cutting them down was enterprising. What did Knight do for a living? He lived for a living. Knight

Socrates may have concluded that his most valuable possession was his leisure. "Beware the barrenness of a busy life" is a quote commonly attributed to him.

is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

He was confounded by the idea that passing the prime of your life in a cubicle, spending hours a day at a computer, in exchange for money, was considered acceptable, but relaxing in a tent in the woods was disturbed. Observing the trees was indolent; cutting them down was enterprising. What did Knight do for a living? He lived for a living.

Those with less become content," says the Tao, "those with more become confused." The