Quotes About Balance

It is all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then.

Retired is being twice tired, I've thought First tired of working, Then tired of not.

Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.

It's all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then.

To live faithfully in the time between the times is to walk a tightrope of moral discernment, claiming neither too much nor too little for God's transforming power within the community of faith.

Beware of the interpreter who always quotes only the Haustafeln (e.g., Col. 3:22: "Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything") and never wrestles with Galatians 5:1 ("For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery")—or vice versa.

The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.

If people just took it a day at a time, they'd be a lot happier.

To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.

It is a palpable error of some ministers, who make such a disproportion between their preaching and their living; who study hard to preach exactly, and study little or not at all to live exactly.

O]ne duty may be said to be too long, when its shuts out another, and then it ceaseth, indeed, to be a duty(274).

with loyalty oaths waving as weapons in the hands of the know-nothing right, the values of liberal education seemed to hang in the balance in 1952.

Q: Explain the concept of homeostasis? A: It is when you stay at home all day and don't go out.

He also came to realize that he had been so busy attempting to do things for God he had not spent time enjoying fellowship with God.

And so in time the rowboat and I became one and the same-like the archer and his bow or the artist and his paint. What I learned wasn't mastery over the elements; it was mastery over myself, which is what conquest is ultimately all about.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance.

Most "necessary evils" are far more evil than necessary.

Live for the present –' I heard my parents' old maxim in the back of my head '– and the future will look after itself.

how slim the line is between genius and insanity and between determination and stubbornness.

never just try to make money. Long-term success will never come if profit is the only aim.

Hard work and fun is what life is all about. As soon as something stops being fun, I think it's time to move on. Life is too short to be unhappy.

Long-term success will never come if profit is the only aim.

something that reads the same backwards as forwards) I have ever seen. It reads, 'A man, a plan, a canal – Panama.

In effect, 1986 marks the year that humans reached Earth's carrying capacity,