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Quotes About Balance

There has been in recent years excessive emphasis on a citizen's rights and inadequate stress put upon his duties and responsibilities.
~ Paxton Blair
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
~ Peace Pilgrim
I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.
~ Peace Pilgrim
Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.
~ Peace Pilgrim
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
~ Peace Pilgrim
Only insofar as we remain in harmony with divine law - do good things come to us
~ Peace Pilgrim
We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.
~ Pearl Buck
I need some time to myself by myself! There must be time for thought and music and peace and solitude! Also: No one can keep a creative house and work every day from nine to five. Can't be done, folks. Ain't no way.
~ Pearl Cleage
I'll rise and fall, let me take credit for both.
~ Unknown
I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.
~ Unknown
Perhaps his greatest lesson is that philosophical rigor does not have to be pedantic.
~ Unknown
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
~ Unknown
Life isn't long enough to enjoy and understand all at the same time. You have to decide which is more important
~ Pedro Juan Gutierrez
Cuando alguien te patea, quedás alerta como si no hubiera nadie de tu lado, y cuando de pronto alguien te trata bien bajás la guardia y te desarmás. El cariño te derrumba.
~ Unknown
Y claro que no tenés tiempo, no lo tenés acá, porque tu tiempo está en otro lugar, con tu mujer y tu hijo. Sos de otro tiempo.
~ Unknown
Y un juego vil que no hay que jugarlo a ciegas, pues juegas cien veces, mil, y de las mil, ves febril que o te pasas o no llegas. Y el no llegar da dolor, pues indica que mal tasas y eres del otro deudor. Mas ¡ay de ti si te pasas! ¡Si te pasas es peor!
~ Unknown
Lo bueno del teletrabajo es que estás más con tu familia. Lo malo del teletrabajo es que estás más con tu familia.
~ Unknown
Varna. He said Joséphine did not have the poise to make such a dramatic entrance. To counter the objection, Varna worked with Joséphine to improve her posture. Balancing first two books, and eventually six, on her head, she descended the stairs time and time again until she could do it with confidence.
~ Unknown
But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it.
~ Peggy Noonan
Careful, Sandi. You're about to let your bulldog mouth overload your bird-dog bite.
~ Unknown
Besides the headers, there were two skills in particular that Dondinho wanted me to focus on: 1) Keeping the ball as close to my body as possible while dribbling, and 2) being able to do everything equally well with both feet.
~ Pele
We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.
~ Pema Chodron
She had once seen a heron flying across the estuary and trying, while it was on the wing, to swallow an eel which it had caught. The eel, in turn, was struggling to escape from the gullet of the heron and appeared a quarter, a half, or occasionally three-quarters of the way out. The indecision expressed by both creatures was pitiable. They had taken on too much.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
Sometimes the opposite of loss is loss.
~ Unknown