Quotes About Balance

In life, I'm a guy who likes to drive a car quite fast, but I wear a seat belt at the same time.

My wife and kids mean more than the belt or UFC or anything else to me.

from our point of view, as long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than wrong with you, no matter what is wrong.

rather than rushing headlong into things with a mind that is sorely out of touch with large parts of ourself, a mind driven by narrow ambition and ideas of personal gain. The story says we can only fare well if we proceed with an awareness of the way things are, including a willingness to admit not knowing where we are going.

as long as you are breathing there is more right with you than wrong with you, no matter what is wrong.

Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more. It all ties in. It's not a real option for me as a

becoming more of a human doing than a human being

Inner peace exists outside of time.

We will need to become more aware of and take precautions against the incredible pull of the Scylla and Charybdis of past and future, and the dreamworld they offer us in place of our lives.

interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.

He needed his solitude at times, but he wasn't a hermit. He did a lot of socializing. Sometimes I think it was like he was storing up company for the times when he knew nobody would be around.

This forms the nub of a dilemna that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but if you're too driven you're likely to die.

books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.

This forms the nub of a dilemma that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but if you're too driven you're likely to die.

Jackson lead as he lived, sometimes with his heart, sometimes with his mind, sometimes with both.

A politician's task was to bring reality and policy into the greatest possible account with the ideal and the principled.

So what can we, in our time, learn from the past, even while we're getting knocked in the head? That the perfect should not be the enemy of the good. That compromise is the oxygen of democracy. And that we learn the most from those who came before not by gazing up at them uncritically or down on them condescendingly but by looking them in the eye and taking their true measure as human beings, not as gods.

That, Lincoln understood, was the moral work of politics: to make the good outweigh the bad.

House. "There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two; so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded." That, Lincoln understood, was the moral work of politics: to make the good outweigh the bad.

The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject anything, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good.

philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of power.

America has always been torn between the ideal and the real, between noble goals and inevitable compromises. So was Jefferson. In his head and in his heart, as in the nation itself, the perfect warred with the good, the intellectual with the visceral.

Diplomacy, grace, and mercy had their place. So did steel, vengeance, and strength.

Jefferson had a remarkable capacity to marshal ideas and to move men, to balance the inspirational and the pragmatic.