Quotes About Balance

Money is good, love is wealth.

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

I have spent too much time with my eye glued to the viewfinder and ended up missing both the image of the mind and that on film.

country without wolves isn't really good country. It's incomplete. It doesn't have its full spirit.

If I wasn't such a bad woman on the page, I couldn't be such a good woman in life.

Realizing when a diversion has gotten out of control is one of the great challenges of life.

There is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness.

The more I immerse myself in science and technology, the greater my need to retreat back to nature. I find it easier to contemplate life and philosophy surrounded by this environment.

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to kill, and a time to heal." —Partial excerpts from Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, King James Bible "Time flies like an arrow . . . but fruit flies like a banana." —Unknown (often attributed to Groucho Marx)

Bring us together. Instead of turning us into their puppets, they'll teach us how to tame our destructive impulses, the demons of our nature, as they learned to do.

Mom was an MD/PhD who worked as a genetic engineer. Dad was a Navy SEAL for four years before leaving to get a PhD in marine biology.

it's true," said the major, "you could have your cake and eat it to.

Trees are still more soothing than steel and cement, despite the lack of a purely intellectual argument as to why this should be so. " Carr

If births continued and deaths were severely curtailed, overpopulation would soon cause devastating effects.

The human body harbored ten times more bacteria than it had cells of its own. In fact, more than thirty times as many bacteria could be found in an ounce of fecal matter than there were humans in the world.

empathic ability, without ensuring that psychopathic tendencies didn't come along for the ride.

To this day, a delicate balance of pure selfishness in some respects and pure selflessness in others is hardwired into our genes. For the sake of discussion, let's use extremes. Call this selfishness sociopathy. Call this selflessness altruism.

It has its ups and downs!

I composed balanced sentences and periodic sentences and practiced, till I was blue in the face, the English department adage, Vary your sentence structure. Amazingly enough, having a mix of long and short sentences, along with topic-body-conclusion paragraph structure, did not automatically make my prose interesting.

make you see double and feel single!

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

If we then follow the evidence and the logic, we can assume that the solution is to subtract foods of excess from our daily fare. And, as we subtract meat, fish, fowl, eggs, dairy products, oil, salt, sugar, and refined carbohydrates from our diet, what remains are foods that promote health. Fresh fruits and vegetables, tubers, whole grains, legumes, and nuts and seeds fill the void after the subtraction has taken place. In response, the previously overburdened body begins to regain its health.