Quotes About Balance

if you begin to want things out of ministry and leadership that you shouldn't want, other areas of calling will not receive the attention from you that they need.

96. It may be difficult to adjust to a vacation if they are too infrequent. Plan

If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing.

Met het verleden in mijn hand als een papiertje harlekijn, wanneer je aan het koordje trekt schieten armen en benen in beweging, je kan het ene niet stilleggen zonder het andere, op beklemmende wijze zit alles als een raderwerk met mekaar in verband.

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

It is more important to have beauty in one's equation than to have them fit experiment

We often think about small decisions more than we need to and about big decisions much less than is optimal for our happiness, such as spending days looking at what colors to paint the walls but only a couple of hours visiting the house we buy.

To be truly happy, then, you need to feel both pleasure and purpose. You can be just as happy or sad as I am but with very different combinations of pleasure and purpose. And you may require each to different degrees at different times. But you do need to feel both. I call this the pleasure-purpose principle—the PPP.

Mig would be happier if he found something purposeful to do (in exchange for some of his fun stuff) and Lisa would be happier if she had a little more fun (in exchange for some of her time spent feeling purposeful).

My research and my experiences tell me that life is less about trading off happiness now for happiness later (and vice versa) and more about trading off pleasure and purpose at different rates at different times.

When researchers looked at the regrets of college students in relation to their recent winter breaks and at the regrets of college graduates looking back at the winter breaks they had forty years earlier, the college students regretted not working harder (purposeful activities) while the alumni regretted not partying harder (pleasurable activities) all those years before

In general, you should not give up too much happiness for too long (clinging to the mistaken belief that you will be able to recoup the loss at some point later on in life). Don't put off until tomorrow happiness that can be experienced today.

I'll show that the key to happiness is finding pleasure and purpose in everyday life.

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

Thomas Merton once said that some of the most violent people he met were social activists, in what they did to themselves.

I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I'm learning to say I've got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why.

When they get out of balance, and our inner selves become involved in intense conflict, then people can begin to experience mental-health problems.

Thanks to those pesky laws of physics, when things aren't sustainable, they stop.

If you can keep hope and worry balanced, they will drive a project forward the same way your two legs drive a bicycle forward.

Don't ignore your dreams; don't work too much; say what you think; cultivate friendships; be happy.

Yin and yang are descriptive terms that are used to describe all levels of phenomena. Yin is the stable, unmoving, hidden aspect of an object. Yang is the changing, moving, revealing aspect of an object.

The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.

The ideal of Taoism was to live in harmony with the Tao and to cultivate a simple and frugal life, avoiding unnecessary action: "Being one with nature, he [the sage] is in accord with the Tao.