Quotes About Balance

Sometimes it also helps to have a bit less pride.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us, but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trup.

It is the way of the world that goodness is often repaid by badness.

There are always rules," Gwen said, serious again. "Good is held to them, evil is not. Sort of an unfair advantage right from the start." Marco

Thomas Moore, psicoterapeuta y autor del superventas Care of the Soul,b que nuestros momentos más conmovedores son aquellos en los que nos hallamos desequilibrados en lugar de equilibrados.

You need contradictions to make an ideal.

Ha! I like the world, kid. I like its sense of humour. I like the way it gets its own back on the know-it-alls and the stuck-ups and the well-meaners.

If you want rest, you have to take it. You have to resist the lure of busyness, make time for rest, take it seriously, and protect it from a world that is intent on stealing it. History

Routinization of work, the researchers concluded, does not have to diminish creativity; if it's accompanied by freedom, routine can enhance creativity.

When we treat workaholics as heroes, we express a belief that labor rather than contemplation is the wellspring of great ideas and that the success of individuals and companies is a measure of their long hours.

As Jessica de Bloom, a psychologist at the University of Tampere and vacation researcher, puts it, vacations are like sleep: you need to take them regularly to benefit.

Rest is not something that the world gives us. It's never been a gift. It's never been something you do when you've finished everything else. If you want rest, you have to take it. You have to resist the lure of busyness, make time for rest, take it seriously, and protect it from a world that is intent on stealing it.

Most of them have desktop computers rather than laptops, which makes it easier to separate their real-world and digital lives;

Rest doesn't just magically appear when we need it,

The supreme quality of great men is the power of resting. Anxiety, restlessness, fretting are marks of weakness. —J. R. SEELEY

4 major factors contribute to recovery: Relaxation, Control, Mastery Experiences, and Mental Detachment from work.

The supreme quality of great men is the power of resting. Anxiety, restlessness, fretting are marks of weakness.

How we spend out non-working hours determines very largely how capably or incapably we spend our working hours.

if it's accompanied by freedom, routine can enhance creativity.

Software developers have epiphanies on vacation, too:

The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.

I paint with shapes.

To survive, much less succeed, I learned I could not give myself over to either pleasure or misery in excess. Whatever you felt was not important. To

The animal will be tender with you, and you with it, but the animal never forgets that when what it wants for survival requires your death, it will become unafraid to kill you. And so you cannot forget this, either. It is, on reflection, good training to be a courtesan. A woman of any kind.