Quotes About Balance

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

Moderation is like a foreign language. You have to learn that shit when you're young.

I wish I could give you everything you want and still be me.

Galima gauti saul?s sm?g?, bet m?nulio sm?gio negausi.

And the best way to detoxify is to eat enough, sleep enough, and shed stress.

That can reduce inflammation, rebuild tissue, and normalize immunity, whereas getting insufficient quality sleep will have the opposite effect.

Numerous studies show that chronic stress lowers metabolic rate, decreases immunity, and increases inflammation. Shedding chronic stress has the opposite effect, improving health in every way.

I have two wolves inside me" he tells the chief. "One wolf is hopeful, spirited, and kind, and the other wolf is mean, competitive, and evil. Who will win?" he asks. The grandfather pats the young warrior on his head and says, "The one who will win is the one you feed.

For every day that there is sunshine, there will be days of rain, it's how we dance within them both that shows our love and pain.

A thousand tiny imperfections can make a perfect life.

And while there's so much wisdom that I don't know, I know that evil doesn't happen for a cosmic reason, a 'balance of good' bullshit. Evil happens because it can, because circumstances allow it to take place. And you build your own sanctuary against it to keep yourself sane, to keep yourself fighting it.

emotions. Composing herself the same way she did

However cliché it sounds, my dear, you know and I know that a Master is cruel only in order to be kind. It's a very, very important rule

The body is entirely neutral, my lady. It just likes sex. It's the mind that fucks up our compass.

real civilization cannot exist in the absence of a certain play-element, for civilization presupposes limitation and mastery of the self, the ability not to confuse its own tendencies with the ultimate and highest goal, but to understand that it is enclosed within certain bounds freely accepted.

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.

Despair often happens, he had learned, when there is a "lack of balance between efforts and rewards.

Slowness, he explained, nurtures attention, and speed shatters it.

If I have too much luggage, too much property, too many material goods, that makes me worry I have to defend this stuff—then in that case I will not have time left to take care of the things I really love, and then I lose my freedom.

we need to move beyond the idea of growth, to something called a "steady-state economy.

Their business model," he says, "is screen time, not life time.

We could work less and buy less. It would prevent the environment—our habitat—from being systematically destroyed. But we don't do it, because we are isolated in our individual cages.

in a culture where people are not "getting the connections that they need in order to be healthy human beings," and that is why we can't put down our smartphones, or bear to log off.