Quotes About Balance

if you act (and dress) as if you have a fascinating inner life, you may soon find that you actually do—and that you feel more balanced as a result.

Tutkijoiden mukaan paras tapa laihtua ja olla lihomatta on tarkkailla itseään huolellisesti - pitämällä esimerkiksi ruokapäiväkirjaa ja punnitsemalla itsensä päivittäin. On myös todettu, että ihmisellä on enemmän tahdonvoimaa, kun hän ei täysin kiellä itseltään tiettyjä ruokia vaan päättää syödä niitä myöhemmin (kuten ilmeisesti viikonloppuna).

French parents don't just think these separations are good for parents. They also genuinely believe that they're important for kids, who must understand that their parents have their own pleasures. "Thus the child understands that he is not the center of the world, and this is essential for his development," the French parenting guide Votre Enfant explains.

The French don't valorize a pregnant woman's anxiety. Instead, in the word cloud of French pregnancy, terms like serenity, balance, and Zen keep popping up. Mothers-to-be are supposed to signal their competence by showing how calm they are and by making it clear that they still experience pleasure. This small shift in emphasis makes a big difference.

It's not enough for French mothers to have pleasures and interests apart from their children. They also want their kids to know about these things. They believe it's burdensome for a child to feel that she's the sole source of her mother's happiness and satisfaction. (A Parisian mother I know told me she was going back to work partly for her daughter's sake.)

trying to keep young children happy all the time will make them less happy later on.

If your child is your only goal in life, it's not good for the child," Danièle says. "What happens to the child if he's the only hope for his mother? I think this is the opinion of all psychoanalysts.

They say sweethearts and squabbles are like flowers and rain. Takes both to make it springtime.

It's important to keep your feet on the ground. No matter how good life gets or how screwed up things are, you have to stay anchored. Otherwise, circumstances can beat you down.

Tu vois, Jo, cette petite étoile au bout de la casserole, elle est comme toi, si tu l'enlèves, la casserole perd son équilibre, et toi, si on te retire de la famille, la famille s'écroule parce que tu es la joie incarnée, la bonne humeur, la générosité... et pourtant, avait poursuivi son père, elle a l'air bien modeste, cette étoile en bout de constellation, on la voit à peine...

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Fasting is the greatest remedy, the physician within.

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.

The dose makes the poison...

One who lives within reason lives without the spirit

Everything is a poison, nothing is a poison. It is the dose that makes the poison

All things are poison, and nothing is without poison.

All things are poison and nothing (is) without poison; only the dose makes that a thing is no poison.

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes either a poison or a remedy.

Little stones that are pelted into the lake of consciousness should not throw the whole lake into commotion.

Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

One sign that I am violating my own nature in the name of nobility is a condition called burnout. Though usually regarded as the result of trying to give too much, burnout in my experience results from trying to give what I do not possess-the ultimate in giving too little! Burnout is a state of emptiness, to be sure, but it does not result from giving all I have: it merely reveals the nothingness from which I was trying to give in the first place.