Quotes About Balance

At first opposites attract. Then opposites attack.

Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.Life just has to go on!

POINT TO PONDER: Blessed are the balanced.

Don't indulge your ego at the expense of your soul.

God often attaches a major weakness to a major strength to keep our egos in check. A limitation can act as a governor to keep us from going too fast and running ahead of God.

it's hard to be spiritually strong and mentally alert when you are emotionally stressed or physically fatigued.

The first way to balance stress in my life is to get an internal balance of who I am. And I know who I am by knowing whose I am. I am a child of God. I was put on earth not by accident, but for a purpose. I am deeply loved by God. I am accepted by him. He has a plan for my life, and because he put me here, I am significant.

The Daniel Plan is rooted in a very simple principle: Take the junk out and let the abundance in.

The Daniel Plan is designed to cut cravings, satisfy your appetite, and teach you to listen to your body.

Impression without expression causes depression. Study without service leads to spiritual stagnation.

Busyness is a great enemy of relationships.

The single best and easiest thing you can do for your health is to recalibrate your taste buds and learn to enjoy pure clean water.

it's easy to forget that the pursuit of happiness is not what life is about.

A garden, as far as Teddy could see, was nature tamed and constrained by artifice.

eye for an eye," Mac said at the squadron reunion. Until everyone was blind, Teddy wondered?)

trying to restore some kind of natural balance of humors in the world.

They had been too taken up with each other, grasshoppers enjoying the summer, rather than ants preparing for the winter.

Sometimes, when she found herself mired in the twin duties of marriage and motherhood, she thought how her life had been compromised by love.

Hegelian synthesis. Dualism

He had made a vow, a private promise to the world in the long dark watches of the night, that if he did survive then in the great afterward he would always try to be kind, to live a good quiet life. Like Candide, he would cultivate his garden. Quietly. And that would be his redemption. Even if he could add only a feather to the balance it would be some kind of repayment for being spared. When it was all over and the reckoning fell due, it may be that he would be in need of that feather.

disengaging from the rat race Jackson

You can't have it both ways," one of her girlfriends said. "Tough and tender, men are like steaks, it's one or the other." Tough and tender, a contradiction in terms, Hegelian synthesis.

Sugary things were restricted; candy was limited, and the only cereals we got were Cheerios, corn flakes, and wholesome hot cereals. Pop (as we called it in Arizona) was out of the question; we drank nothing but milk, water, and juice in our house. Of course, out-and-out junk food like Cheetos and Pop-Tarts was never allowed.

Everything, as you well know . . . cannot always be sweetness and light.