Quotes About Balance

The garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature.

I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live life.

Considering all that competes for your time and attention, if you don't actively take steps to simplify your life and carve out what I call "breathing space," you will most certainly find yourself in a perpetual state of overwhelm.

It's not that you can't get things done with the use of a cell phone; indeed you can get a lot of things done. However, the nature of what you get done is highly skewed. Just as the man with only a hammer sees everything as nails, the incessant cell phone user accomplishes a variety of tasks, understandably enough, that accrue directly to having a cell phone.

Soetsu Yanagi, in the "Unknown Craftsman", writes, "Man is most free when his tools are proportionate to his needs." For example, for optimal productivity, a carpenter needs woodworking tools and an environment conducive to his work, not a steam shovel or army tank.

Complexity is a universal norm, while simplicity in your life is an achievable exception.

Love says "I am everything". Wisdom says "I am nothing". Between the two, my life flows. - Nisargadatta Maharaj

Reach out for the light, yes, but love your shadows too.

I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.

LOYAL TO THE SOIL—WE NEED WATER NOT OIL and IF WE DESTROY CREATION, CREATION WILL DESTROY US.

You can either plan to be eternally vigilant and ready, eschewing life as we know it, or be willing to enjoy life and pay the price.

when asked his philosophy of life, he replied, "Moderation in all things.

This has the benefit of originality," I said. "I agree. Keep them off balance. Hurl crazy hookers at the enemy at every opportunity. Sun Tzu said that, didn't he?" "I believe he did.

And if you don't spend every second outdoors, people think there's someting wrong with you.

I know I need to eat healthier, but if you take fast food out of my diet I'm in big trouble, because I'm probably something like 95% chicken nugget.

Visualize any wooded area you remember visiting. It is beautiful, majestic - and no one ever fertilized any of the plants there. Not one single time.

Von Liebig's Law of the Minimum states that if one nutrient doesn't reach the minimum required by a plant, then it doesn't matter how much more of the others you apply. In short, the barrel will only hold up to its lowest stave.

Sometimes you need to slow down to go fast.

Remember: success does not lead to happiness—it's the other way around.

Being productive and being busy are not necessarily the same thing. Doing things won't create your success; doing the right things will.

With children it is often so much easier to take the path of least resistance—to let them eat that fast food they love rather than cook something healthy, to let them watch TV rather than read to them, to let them play video games rather than interact with them.

You must take control of your thoughts and your emotions, or they will control you"' Malao

Sometimes to deal with your problems you have to let off a little steam.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." — Albert Einstein "Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window." — Steve Wozniak "Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity." — Thor Heyerdahl