Quotes About Balance

It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a flat overflowing with books I was reading for the part.

We were contented to let things remain as the Great Spirit Chief made them. They were not; and would change the rivers and mountains if they did not suit them. . . .

man, but it was completely lopsided.

you got your just desserts

Is there a cost to this booming virtual social life? Does it impact our kids' person-to-person skills? Emerging research shows it does and underlines the need to balance tech enthusiasm with encouraging our kids to use age-old practices like turning toward each other, face-to-face.

Having money is less important than having peace.

There are two sides to every dialogue, but if you accept the other side's terms without demanding equal time for your own, then they control the debate and its outcome.

work and life are not separate things and therefore cannot be balanced against each other except to create further trouble.

Work, like marriage, is a place you can lose yourself more easily perhaps than finding yourself. It is a place full of powerful undercurrents, a place to find our selves, but also, a place to drown, losing all sense of our own voice, our own contribution and conversation.

The marriage of work has everything to do with the romance of the everyday.

work is achieved not by creating a hermetic space sealed off from the world, but nel mezzo, in the middle of everything.

You have a moment in the day, as Blake said, that Satan (the strategic mind, worried about being 'productive') cannot find.

The defender must first think defensively, but he must also think offensively. For an attacker it is the other way around. Somewhere they meet.

Out of trillions of organisms that were alive at the beginning of time, are alive now and will be alive at the end of time, only one tampers with its food. You do not want to bet against those kinds of odds.

One of the most important distinctions found within these pages is the fact that all foods are not created equal. Some foods are deficient in minerals and key nutrients, while other foods are packed with a powerhouse of valuable nutrients that can change your life, your health, and your body in a truly incredible way.

Unbalanced and low levels of hormones have been associated with numerous chronic problems and age-related conditions. Along with many other actions, hormones are chemical messengers; they signal the cells to become younger or older, to slow or increase multiplication, to be immunologically responsive or lazy.

Even if we eat the best diet ever (and I highly recommend that we do), we still may not achieve the longevity that is possible.

And you know what happens when a ship gets too many rats on board? It sinks. That's what. I wondered if a ship had ever really sunk that way.

I'm a productive citizen. Well, not productive, I mean if you add up what I bring to society and what I take out, society probably breaks even. And I'm not crazy. I mean, I know anybody can say that. But a crazy person can't fake sane, right?

I'm burning out, John. Seriously. I don't know if I'm up for this. I feel stretched out, like too little butter scraped over too much waffle. And then it all falls down into one of the waffle holes and there's none left for the rest of the waffle and you sort of have to tilt it to make it run out.

save your love for the things that can love you back.

Put your food dollars toward nutrients, not calories.

make sure your foods have less sugar than fiber.

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.