Quotes About Balance

The Christian cliché "love the sinner, hate the sin" is problematic because it is always long on judgment and short on love. People sense that deeply; they understand when a relationship is fundamentally unsafe, precariously balanced on a scale of disapproval.

I am not as good as my ego suggests and not as bad as my conscience admonishes.

academia has its place but can atrophy a real life. I need to see and smell and travel and put my arms around human beings. I cannot write a good story if I am not living one. Doctors put in the work to be good doctors. Teachers

I've discovered reduced consumption doesn't equal reduced community or reduced contentment. There is something liberating about unplugging the machine to discover the heartbeat of life still thumping.

Mostly good is enough. Mostly good produces healthy kids who know they are valued and either forget the other parts or turn them into funny stories.

It was hard to make room for my friends. But I did it.

I'm not lazy. I'm simply judicious about excess movement.

Despite my best efforts, I'm not quite perfect. Let's just say I'm like one of those Hopi blankets where they leave a tiny flaw so as to not affront the Lord.

Stop talking about how busy you are. Focus on what you enjoy about what you do and the spaces in between the doing instead of feeling weighed down by it all. Decide that you live an awesome, relaxed life full of interesting projects that you love doing and communicate that to the world and yourself. And then go out and merrily do it.

You have nothing to gain by freaking out.

And still, after all this time,       the Sun has never said to the Earth,       ââ'¬Å"You owe me."       Look what happens with love like that. It lights up the sky. —Rumi

Other people's needs can occupy several lifetimes' worth of our attention, and if you let them, they will.

Kids get so wrapped up in the joy of drawing or pretending or discovering that they'd rarely eat or bathe or sleep if we didn't make them.

Do what you can in joy, instead of trying to do it all in misery.

The mind and the body are way more powerful together than either one is alone.

Do what you can do in joy, instead of trying to do it all in misery.

Je besser sich unser Körper fühlt, desto glücklicher und produktiver sind wir.

You aren't a selfish person for taking care of yourself, just a happier one. Take care of yourself as if you're the most awesome person you've ever met.

One of the premier causes of unnecessary drama is bad boundaries.

Your external world is a mirror of your internal world.

Figure out the things you get lost in in your business and your personal life. Then figure out how you can be doing more of those things more of the time. Hire someone and delegate the tasks you hate doing. Partner up with someone who's good at, and enjoy doing the things you're not that into.

better our bodies feel, the happier and more productive we are. 7.

aren't a selfish person for taking care of yourself, just a happier one.

You cannot give what you do not have, so if you want to help others you have to take care of yourself first.