Quotes About Balance

The most significant factor in an individual's ability to remain in good health may be a sense of control over the events of life," one psychologist has remarked.

you're so busy trying to deal with the implications of failing that you don't have the time and energy to do what it takes to succeed.

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.

Once learn how Nature gardens for herself, and you will be able to spare yourself a good deal of trouble.

Would not the proper conclusion, therefore—a conclusion not overstrained and if not stated with excessive dogmatism—seem to be, that literature, though demanding precedence in the affections, and exacting the chief attention of one who professes really to love it, is not a jealous mistress, but, on the contrary, is only too well pleased to see even its most attached votaries combine with their one supreme passion a number of minor interests and even minor affections.

Le mal existe, mais pas sans le bien, comme l'ombre existe, mais pas sans la lumière. Evil exists, but not without the good, as the shadow exists, but not without the light. (III, 3)

Le mal existe, mais pas sans le bien, comme l'ombre existe, mais pas sans la lumière. (III, 3) Evil exists, but not without the good, as the shadow exists, but not without the light.

L'amitié ni l'amour ne doivent recevoir que ce qu'ils peuvent rendre (37)

It is essential to resist our natural tendencies to allow emotions to control actions.

In Washington, I will never vote to raise taxes, I will fight to repeal healthcare reform, and I will work to balance the budget.

I think the editorial page of the Washington Post is the best in the country. I think the editorials - considering it's a liberal town, liberal constituency and from the liberal tradition - I think it's the best editorial page around. It's quite balanced.

Given the right information to help them decide, people will opt for conditions that benefit our creaturely neighbours, even where they have no particular interest in larks or cuckoo wasps - because those conditions benefit us.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

What could make my life better? Oh, if I could only find that magic bottle that lets you never have to sleep. I have so much stuff I wanna do, but... That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!

I'm always working. I don't really set limits. I tend to go in bursts. And in between, I'm doing my taxes, answering the phone, and all those kinds of things. I waste a lot of time. Computers take a lot of time. I love computers.

If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.

My best friend and I go to bed at 11 o'clock. We have such old lady schedules. Everyone's always like, 'Let's go out!' And we're always like, 'No, we don't want to.' They call us the grandmas. L.A. can get really old really quickly if you waste your life away in a club all night.

If I've been working a lot and I've been away from my kids, then I don't go to the gym. It's okay to miss a day. I tell myself not to feel bad about it, too, because then it's a waste if you choose not to do something and feel bad.

I learned to be on time because, otherwise, you could miss a major opportunity. Also, it's important to live a balanced life, stay healthy, and not waste your money on things like $8 lattes.

I always felt really guilty if I spent too much time playing video games. It's a colossal waste of time. And I can't say it's a very satisfying feeling at the end of the day, if you've spent eight hours playing a video game; you just end up feeling kind of spent, and used.

Many people think spending an hour or two in the kitchen is a waste of time. But it is a good investment in your spiritual development.

We spend so much of our lives doing math problems on how to feel good. It's such a waste of time. You're going to feel how you feel. It's hard to just set up a way that you're going to live your life that is going to be just endlessly happy and healthy. That's impossible.

The biggest waste of time of my life was playing 'Call of Duty.' But I got really good at 'Call of Duty' - a little bit too good at that time.

When I get ready to go out, it's half hour and we're out of the door. I don't want to waste time getting ready: I want to go and have fun.