Quotes About Balance

But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

Made us nobly wild, not mad.

At the heart of excessive individualism is a broken heart

A Modern Prayer Dear God, help me to slow down notrushpasteverythingthatisimportanttodayamen. Robert Holden

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." David Viscott

How difficult it was to hold the eyes focussed on that far horizon when this world lay in the foreground so compelling in its splendour and its strength!

The Church, then, is too much interested in men and too much absorbed in God. Of course she is too much interested and too much absorbed, for she alone knows the value and capacity of both; she who is herself both Divine and Human.

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

They live in Tranquillity which is not disturb'd by the Inequality of Condition.

The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry.

The best bosses find the sweet spot between acting like spineless wimps who always do just as they are told (no matter how absurd) versus insubordinate rabble-rousers who challenge and ignore every order and standard operating procedure. Good bosses try to cooperate with superiors and do what is best for their organizations, but they realize that defiance can be required to protect their people and themselves – and sometimes is even ultimately appreciated by superiors.

When someone at the Directors' College asked Campbell about the most crucial skill for a senior executive, he said it was the rare ability (which Jobs had in spades) to make sure that the short-term stuff gets done and done well, while simultaneously never losing sight of the big picture.

el tiempo se inventó para no tener que hacerlo todo a la vez».

Brain without heart is far more dangerous than heart without brain.

Then he recited to the still very groggy Sultan the old Arab proverb, 'He that sleeps one-third of the night has done as well as he that sleeps half the night, and he that sleeps all night will awaken an idiot.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles. Instead, climb more mountains, eat more ice cream, go barefoot oftener, swim more rivers, watch more sunsets, laugh more and cry less. Life must be lived as we go along.

It is senseless for you to work so hard from early morning until late at night, fearing you will starve to death; for God wants his loved ones to get their proper rest. —Psalm 127:2

Use your calendar as a shield to encircle the most important things of life.

A solid routine fosters a well-worn groove for one's mental energies and helps stave off the tyranny of moods." —Mason Currey, in Daily Rituals

Someone said, "If the devil can't make you bad, he'll make you busy.

Be seriously cheerful, and cheerfully serious. Religion was never design'd to make our pleasures less. —Isaac Watts

Our ability to influence the world is directly proportional to our knack for managing our own lives

If you're over twenty-one, you are certainly aware that one of the most commonly used intimidation ploys is to make a person feel guilty for concentrating too much on his own well-being.