Quotes About Balance

This is in direct relationship to nature's pendulum. We also resolve overwhelm through the natural cycles of expansion and contraction. This tells us that no matter how badly we are feeling right now, this contraction will be followed by an expansion toward freedom.

For people to be happy in life, two factors are crucial: One is good interpersonal relationships and the second is a feeling of productivity. That feeling feeds motivation.

It's amazing how stress keeps you trim.

The world of the sorcerer's apprentice – a world without an 'off' switch? Is that the world we inhabit?

wherever they live, travel, hike, swim, fish, dive, kayak, or trek, they risk being confronted by something capable of doing them in with tooth, fang, claw, jaw, or stinger, and yet there is no public clamor to eradicate any animal because of the peril it poses to the human population. australians have learned to coexist in relative peace with nearly everything, and when occasionally a human life is lost to an animal, the public usually reacts philosophically.

Second and third opinions can be valuable, but don't spin your wheels and lose time by getting ten opinions.

A dropped cat always lands on its feet. Buttered toast always lands buttered side down. Strap buttered toast to back of cat , & drop. The two will hover, spinning inches above the ground ...

The goal is to balance a life that works with a life that counts.

Justice is restoring order, not furthering chaos.

Nos estamos ahogando en información, dicen, pero «pasamos hambre de conocimiento». Podemos convertirnos en «gigantes de la información», pero corremos el riesgo de convertirnos en «enanos del conocimiento».

Pitting the learning of basic knowledge against creative thinking is a false choice

Pitting the learning of basic knowledge against the development of creative thinking is a false choice. Both need to be cultivated. The stronger one's knowledge about the subject at hand, the more nuanced one's creativity can be in addressing a new problem. Just as knowledge amounts to little without the exercise of ingenuity and imagination, creativity absent a sturdy foundation of knowledge builds a shaky house.

I'm working on a new problem: Find the value for N such that N plus everything else in your life makes you feel all right. What would N equal? Solve for N.

Journalists are poorly paid and often alarmingly unconcerned about sources or facts, whilst many articles are an infuriating mixture of fact and comment.

It is not only medicine that maintains well-being. Once we function competently, the world may pitch in.

I have placed the keys of the whole universal Church in your hands, and over that which I have redeemed by the spilling of my own blood, I placed you as my vicar.… I, however, who have given you such and so many things, do not find law or justice in your balance, and I depart from your tribunals despised and unavenged.41

Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.

The superficial and the slipshod have ready answers, but those looking this complex life straight in the eye acquire a wealth of perception so composed of delicately balanced contradictions that they dread, or resent, the call to couch any part of it in a bland generalization.

Nothing is more natural, of course, than that extreme environments produce their opposites.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

If you separate the writing process into two stages, you can exploit these opposing muscles one at a time: first be loose and accepting as you do fast early writing; then be critically toughminded as you revise what you have produced. What you'll discover is that these two skills used alternately don't undermine each other at all, they enhance each other.

diversity in no way implies chaos or error.

Leave enough time unscheduled; anyone in a decision-making position should, as a rule, schedule no more than half his time.

we exist to protect the majority so they can run around living their lives as decently and as best they can.