Quotes About Balance

I live my life in pursuit of truth and beauty. It doesn't pay very well.

We are all equal in the face of nature.

Being without electronics for more than a few hours is like being kidnapped by a cult deprogrammer in a cheap brown suit and taken to a fluorescent motel

Fathers, on the other hand, were there to toughen children up, to say Walk it off when mothers would hold them if they fell. Mothers were the carrot. Fathers were the stick.

I believe the world lives on the edge between magic and science," he says finally. "And that it tips back and forth, depending on what we believe.

These days when he thinks about happiness and contentment, he thinks in terms of milligrams.

Albert Einstein, who once said, "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

A good basic guideline for our speech (in relation to Ethical Conduct) is to reflect whether what we are saying is both true and useful. There may be times when we are honest in what we say, but our words are too brutal or harsh. And there may be other times when we are deliberately being kind with the words we choose, but what we are saying is not totally true.

A good basic guideline for our speech is to reflect on whether what we are saying is both true and useful. There may be times when we are honest in what we say, but our words are too brutal or harsh. And there may be other times when we are deliberately being kind with the words we choose, but what we are saying is not totally true.

All these feelings are unnecessary suffering caused by an imbalance between our instinctual drive for happiness and our instinctual need for survival. It is also very important to remember that the end of suffering does not mean the end of pain or difficulties, just the end of creating unnecessary suffering in our lives.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

Every modern woman who rejects the double standard, who combines a career with life as a mother, who demands personal

Anger is a futile emotion. The man who is angry loses more energy than his victim. So if you are angry you put yourself at a disadvantage.

Dream your dreams, but when you act, plant your feet firmly on the ground.

Jimmy Buffett, Mr. Margaritaville, said that if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster.

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

It didn't feel good, but on the other hand, it felt just right.

Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.

Food that's good for you should taste good!

Let me speak as a physician, Lady Blue: the primary cause of your melancholy is that for too long you have lacked contact with the earth, with water, with green and growing plants. You are not the kind of person who can live apart from these things. Like a wild bird in a cage, you will lose the will to live. You have to get outside.

Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.

The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow the ship's whistle OR move the wheel. Just as the little ship could not do both, Lincoln fears that very few can actually think and speak at the same time.

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.