Quotes About Balance

While many of us grew up being taught to make sure we got enough protein, the fact is we have gotten too much.

God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.

True masters are those who've chosen to make a life rather than a living.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

How many thousands have I spent on perfume and alcohol, cigarettes and Turkish baths, disappointing trips and third-class movies; how many months in silent bars or parks, expecting, in a chair with a book not reading, or waiting in line, waiting in line? Who will tell me it's a loss when I know life must be for pleasure? The parks were balanced by museums, the baths by oceans, bars by composition, and the dreaming chair by books finished. Nothing is waste that makes a memory.

I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

Life can't be cured, but it can be managed.

Procrastination is not the cause of our problems with accomplishing tasks; it is an attempt to resolve a variety of underlying issues, including low self-esteem, perfectionism, fear of failure and of success, indecisiveness, an imbalance between work and play, ineffective goal-setting, and negative concepts about work and yourself.

The healthy individual has an appetite for fruitful activity and for a high quality of life. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.

Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.

Just follow your front wheel.

Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.

schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

What's wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies

What this means is that at its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry--is not even a "subject"--but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.

I want to have money, so I don't have to spend my life chasing money.

He is a calm man in a land of hotheads,

Men and women are natural enemies, like cat and dog--only more so. They are forced to live together for a time, or this wonderful race couldn't go on.

I could not abandon the rest of me, even when the rest of me overwhelmed my art.

Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, thought I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.