Quotes About Balance

I save my panic for small things.

was an aesthetically pleasing, yet highly functional, combination of old and new.

Too often in our lives, accomplishment and doing overshadow growth and becoming. We frantically scurry around, trying to paint the picture with our activities, but our being must be settled before our doing. George MacDonald said it well: "He thought to gain a thing by a doing, when the very thing desired was a being."8

No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money" (Matthew 6:24).

What a strange alchemy we have worked, turning earth around to destroy itself, using earth's own elements to wound it.

He was a man who evidently felt very little; she was a woman who felt, perhaps, too much.

Never run if you can walk, never walk if you can stand, never stand if you can sit, and never sit if you can lie." "Never talk if you can listen

Not so wide that a woman would feel as if she might fall in, and not so small it looked as if he'd just sucked a lemon like Ronald Trump's, or whatever his name was. All in all, Richard's lips looked just right.

Chloe put aside worries about her job, her life, and turned to face him. Sex can't be the answer to everything, she said as she draped her arms around his strong neck. He bent his head to hers. For now, it can, he said and kissed her.

Then I added a dash of salt, which counteracts the natural bitterness of coffee

We need what I call "Grace Time," a term that is more descriptive and positive than "down time"—to revive, to recover our energy, to daydream, and to putter. Without it, we endanger our energy supply and court disaster in our health.

Your Lily is a pretty little thing, but she's as fractious as my Susannah." Caleb grinned. "It's going to take two hands and all my wits to keep her in line," he confessed. Unwillingly

We don't sleep to sleep, dammit, any more than we eat to eat . We sleep to dream. We're amphibians. We live in two elements and we need both. Edward Nesbit

Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.

It is easy to possess a conscience, Monsieur, when one only needs to talk or write about it. But the man, who has to act is constantly faced with the necessity, if he wishes to deal justly with one person, of being unjust to somebody else.

The principle of relativity should be applied with due discretion in the field of jurisprudence and governmental administration.

If this was adulthood, the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that now she could eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

words of the reckless pierce like swords,             but the tongue of the wise brings healing. (Proverbs 12:18, NIV)

When our lives are divinely ordered, our spirit will direct our soul and mind, which in turn will guide our physical self.

Maybe she'd get a Siamese fighting fish. Or better yet, a ficus tree. God knows a plant would probably be a lot less offended that she ate take-out sushi almost every other night. It was a thought.

SpecWar superstuds were not Arnold Schwarzenegger. They were Buddhist monks.

We regard each other for a long moment. I can tell he has no more apologies in him, and I know I have no more forgiveness in me, so I guess that makes us even.

go one of two ways—an underachieving drunk or an overachieving workaholic. Since

My wife and I are raising a small child while juggling two careers. This isn't the honeymoon phase. This is work.