Quotes About Balance

Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.

I'm very lucky to have a strong support system with my friends and my family. They have kept me grounded.

Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.

Deflation can be particularly dangerous when a financial system is shaky, with household and corporate balance sheets in poor shape and banks undercapitalized and heavily burdened with bad loans.

We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs.

Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.

I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband's leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up.

If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.

I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem.

In the words of the Joni Mitchell song, we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

It seems to me if we all just did what we're good at, the planet would average out to okay.

Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.

Life was a too-tall stack of books that had started to lean to one side, and each new day was another book on top.

Dad is looking at the bookshelves, deep in thought, deciding which book should go where. Once, Mom came home from work and discovered that he had turned all the books around so that the bindings were against the wall and the pages faced out. He said it was calming not to have all those words floating around and "creating static." Mom made him turn them back. She said it was too hard to find a book when she couldn't read the titles. Then she poured herself a big glass of wine.

You can have it all, but you can't have it all at once.

But Bridge understood that life didn't balance anymore. Life was a too-tall stack of books that had started to lean to one side, and each new day was another book on top.

Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.

I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.

They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.

Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection.

I hate to play the I-live-in-the-country card, but it really takes all of the 'pack the kids into the car and run from here to there' out of the equation.

If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them.

I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant.