Quotes About Balance

I have become more interested than ever in the effect of a diet higher in 'greens' than it is in meat - both in terms of my own wellbeing and, more recently, those implications that go beyond me and those for whom I cook.

The best way to live, then, was this: have a very simple lifestyle, be kind to those around you, and surround yourself with friends.

You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.

I think God's really blessed me with patience. I'm good with a lot of things going on at once.

The perfect size is happy" -Garvey

You can be pretty, and have a boyfriend, and still be smart, all at the same time. You don't always have to choose.

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views

Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.

Un artista anche nell'angoscia esprime tranquillità.

Gradually, therefore, Tientietnikov grew more at home in the Service. Yet never did it become, for him, the main pursuit, the main object in life, which he had expected. No, it remained but one of a secondary kind. That is to say, it served merely to divide up his time, and enable him the more to value his hours of leisure.

He granted its due share to everything equally, drawing from everything only what was beautiful in it, and in the end left himself only the divine Raphael as a teacher. So a great poetic artist, having read many different writings filled with much delight and majestic beauty, in the end might leave himself, as his daily reading, only Homer's Iliad , having discovered that there is nothing that has not already been reflected in its profound and great perfection.

nature loves patience,

All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see?

the Purpose of a company should automatically come down to balancing the demands of stakeholders or constituencies. In real life, this is already the way companies are managed. Corporate directors have to balance demands in the short run—from customers, workers, shareholders, community and so on—or they will find themselves out of business or in jail. Companies

I was kind of a jock in school. Beauty wasn't something I spent a lot of time on.

Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows.

To work in the world is hard, to refrain from all unnecessary work is even harder.

Each pleasure is wrapped in pain. You soon discover that you cannot have one without the other … Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances … Real happiness flows from within.

The world is full of contradictions; hence your search for harmony and peace. These you cannot find in the world, for the world is the child of chaos. To find order you must search within.

It does not matter much what happens, for ultimately the return to balance and harmony is inevitable. The heart of things is at peace.

With our busy lives, for most of us, relaxation is not a priority. When to do nothing." I ask people in yoga classes what they do to relax, a common answer is our —J. B. Priestley contemporary types of "relaxation"—watching TV, competitive and spectator sports events, walking, reading, and so on.

To rise at six, dine at ten, Sup at five, to bed at ten, Makes man live ten times ten.

It is just as easy to bring death to man, and I've done so. It's harder to keep hold of life, harder still to maintain a grasp on health. Those are the tasks to which we must keep our minds.