Quotes About Balance

Allow the neck to be free, in such a way that the head can go forward and upwards, in order for the back to lengthen and widen.

Be just before you're generous.

Today's parents tend to be uncomfortable with their authority.

Allowing children open access to every aspect of parents' lives can make for children who simply cannot bear the idea of their parents having experiences, relationships, and more that exclude them.

You deserve to have interests beyond your child.

Unspoiling is nothing more than the absence of spoiling.

Moderation was the effect of congenital optimism. Why push too hard at an open door?

Humor and seriousness can be an unstable mix.

Most importantly we have learned that from here on it is success for all or none, for it is experimentally proven by physics that "unity is plural and at minimum two" - the complementary but not mirror-imaged proton and neutron. You and I are inherently different and complimentary. Together we average as zero - that is, as eternity.

Learning to stop sweating the small stuff involves deciding what things to engage in and what things to ignore. From a certain perspective, life can be described as a series of mistakes, one right after another with a little space in between.

Your heart, the compassionate part of you, knows that it's impossible to feel better at the expense of someone else.

Don't sweat the small stuff...and it's all small stuff.

If we would just slow down, happiness would catch up to us.

your Parliament and your Constitution. America is an elephant. Cyprus is a flea. Greece is a flea. If those two fleas continue itching the elephant, they may just get whacked by the elephant's trunk, whacked good. President Lyndon Johnson to the Greek ambassador in Washington (1964)

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

Half the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need.

The universe was a cosmos, not a chaos; man was as rightfully a part of that cosmos as were the day and night.

Zen Buddhist dictum that "the opposite of a great truth is also true.

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.

If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn't be sitting here - but I don't think I'd be sitting someplace where I was sorry to be sitting.

She was an artist. She held opposites in her mind.

It is not necessary to be large to be a perfectly good arthropod (or mollusc, come to that).

Don't let the workings of adversity totally absorb your life. Try to understand what you can. Act where you are able; then let the matter rest with the Lord for a period while you give to others in worthy ways before you take on appropriate concern again.

Sometimes we get so wrapped up in things that we find fascinating or become so consumed by mundane responsibilities that we lose sight of God's objectives. As you consistently focus your life on the most basic principles, you will gain an understanding of what you are to do, and you will produce more fruit for the Lord and more happiness for yourself.