Quotes About Balance

You can't read all the time.

It's the same with everything,' said Ninian. 'The greater the control we accept, the greater the freedom.

The great test of masculinity in our modern era is not going into the woods and eating bugs to prove we can overcome our fear in a bold display of our survival skills; it's learning to protect the women in our lives without trying to control them.

It's funny how sex factors into the way people describe the state of their relationships. Studies show that, when things are going well, sex contributes only 15 percent to the overall satisfaction of a relationship. But if things aren't going well, it contributes 85 percent to the dissatisfaction.

Right now, our model is the culture of exhaustion. We need to be exhausted before we can fall asleep, so we keep pushing and pushing ourselves. But if a society can't rest, how can it sleep?

Control.... is not what we need. What we need is to bend to the tempest like pine and palm trees - flexible, adaptive, attuned, yet fully rooted in our principles.

When you've got too much religion that you can't mingle with people, that you're afraid of certain people, you've got too much religion. C. L. Franklin, from a 1955 sermon

They lay together like a word and a comma, asleep within an unfinished sentence.

All the elements of the universe -- fire, earth, air and water -- are assembled in a loaf of bread.

Standing with reluctant feet, where the brook and river meet.

Sometimes you have to take the good with the bad to get what you need.

There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. A

Las máquinas hacían la vida más fácil, o eso es lo que creíamos, pero invadían y despedazaban la tierra y el cielo de maneras que apenas comprendíamos. Estas dos primeras innovaciones, el cultivo y la creación de maquinas que trabajaran para nosotros, tendrían que habernos enseñado a cuidar del mundo, pero no lo hicieron. Lo único que aprendimos fue a inventar formas de destruirlo mejor.

There was a time when I thought I turned terrible things over in my mind because I read and wrote too many scary stories. (Note self: start writing about unicorns and bunnies)

One can save one's soul, or one can found or maintain or serve a great and glorious state; but not always both at once.

Perhaps animals are smarter than men, he thought, taking only what they need to live today leaving something for tomorrow.

Even the hated wolf kills only for food and only for immediate need. Maybe it is man who will eventually perish as he destroys the land and all that it offers, taking the animals down with him.

If circumstances dictate that your disposable income has to come from eating ramen alongside your vintage Cantillon gueuze, so be it.

Those who run fast in life will be given an extra load to carry so that they may keep up with those that are walking through life.

strategically using your reactions, you can shift the direction to a middle ground that is more acceptable to both of you, and eventually to a topic that you want.

I'd rather be happy than be right." Probably

Don't force things, but this doesn't mean that you can't make a real effort.

The best way for a person to live, according to Taoism, is to submit to whatever life brings and be flexible.

Remember, you're not doing nothing—you're taking action through nonaction.