Quotes About Balance

If you are doing things in order to be happy... you're doing them in the wrong order.

We count our miseries carefully and accept our blessings without much thought." Masters

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

If God meant woman to rule over man, He would have taken her out of Adam's head. Had He designed her to be his slave, He would have taken her out of his feet. But God took woman out of man's side, for He made her to be a helpmate and an equal to him. —Augustine

Despite the gardener's best intentions, Nature will improvise.

drink only enough to satisfy your thirst. Appropriate here is Tim Noakes' conclusion in his book Waterlogged: The Serious Problem of Overhydration in Endurance Sports (page 353): "Your body will tell you what it needs if you just listen.

Stay hydrated but do not flush the electrolytes from your body by excessive drinking. You should drink only enough water to maintain the same, normal output of urine you normally experience.

I find myself much more worried about our stability than our security.

Palpatine sought power over others. Yoda sought power from within. Palpatine wanted control of everything, in the hopes of building what he thought would be a perfect universe. Yoda gave up the idea of controlling or perfecting the universe, in the hopes of understanding it.

The stronger you become in the Force, the more that you can do, the more that's expected of you, and the less your life belongs to you.

You must keep active mentally as well as physically. I always try to do that.

Disciplinary actions can easily become excessive and oppressive if you set aside the tool of training and depend on discipline alone to do the training.

If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.

Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.

As it sometimes happened, the good suffered for the faults of the bad.

Peace is found neither in hot blood nor in cold sweat," Nova said.

to stimulate the body's natural self-curative abilities.

the most effective method for self-treatment of tension-related ailments

acupressure to relieve anxiety and to help you get to sleep at night.

Thus acupressure focuses on relieving pain and discomfort as well as on responding to tension before it develops into a "dis-ease," that is, before the constrictions and imbalances can do further damage.