Quotes About Balance

reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.

If you are too busy to read, you are too busy.

Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.

I can deal with fighting in the arena in Hell, but laundry and dishes put the fear of God in me.

The downside to jackrabbit reflexes is that while they get you out of the way of obvious and imminent danger, when you're going forty miles an hour on your front wheel, those reflexes will simply launch you into the air like a squirrel on a land mine.

Going without meat for one meal won't kill you." I look over the food. "This might. Spinach and cauliflower aren't vegetables. They're punishment. They're the solitary confinement of food.

God's nature has always been multifold, and never more than now. He dances with a dove in one hand and an ax in the other.

Avoid hard work. Don't push water uphill. Be very selective in what you do. Have a great life.

There are people who want to achieve--and then there are sane people.

It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways.

You might get much better value and happiness out of a simpler and cheaper lifestyle.

She recognized several glass and ceramic mortar and pestle units for grinding substances into a smooth powder. A shiny brass balance scale stood in the center of the shelf, its weights arranged in an orderly row in an open walnut case beside it. At the end of the shelf she spied another small wooden case, open to display a group of metal dies and pegs. She had no idea what that was, but the display was impressive.

Everything made by men will be destroyed by nature in the end. Mountains and river, the creations of nature -- they will remain. Everything human, that will go. We nee to reconsider the respect we give to nature.

The most important thing of all is to stay supple and flexible," he said. "The moment you will be most stiff is when you die—you never get stiffer than that. So you've got to sleep well, eat well, and keep moving.

In an effort to value and structure time, some of us unintentionally may be killing dreamtime.

Unlike television, nature does not steal time; it amplifies it.

Our sensitivity to nature, and our humility within it, are essential to our physical and spiritual survival. Yet, our growing disconnection from nature dulls our senses, and eventually blunts even the sharpened sensory state created by man-made or natural disaster.

There's no denying the benefits of the Internet. But electronic immersion, without a force to balance it, creates the hole in the boat — draining our ability to pay attention, to think clearly, to be productive and creative.

The more high tech we become the more nature we need.

Our lives may be more productive, but less inventive.

Nature was still out there. There was less of it, to be sure, but it was there just the same.

The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers, For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not.

spare time in the garden, either digging, setting out or weeding; there is no better way to preserve your health.

Nature offers a well from which many, famous or not, draw a creative sense of pattern and connection.