Quotes About Balance

digital detox is 'not the solution, for the same reason that wearing a gas mask for two days a week outside isn't the answer to pollution.

The term doesn't really make any sense, she said: we don't know what a "chemically balanced" brain would look like. People are told that drugs like antidepressants restore a natural balance to your brain, she said, but it's not true—they create an artificial state. The whole idea of mental distress being caused simply by a chemical imbalance is "a myth," she has come to believe, sold to us by the drug companies.

The concept of "work hours" is vanishing for most people—so this thing that 87 percent of us don't enjoy is spreading over more and more of our lives.

Sleep is a really important balance of many, many neurotransmitters, and if you artificially…pump up one, it changes the balance of that sleep.

But if you only break away from distraction into rest—if you don't replace it with a positive goal you are striving toward—you will always be pulled back to distraction sooner or later. The more powerful path out of distraction is to find your flow.

different study of office workers in the U.S. found most of them never get an hour of uninterrupted work in a typical day. If this goes on for months and years, it scrambles your ability to figure out who you are and what you want. You become lost in your own

People were, [Tristan Harris] warned, living 'on a treadmill of continuous checking.

How do you slow down in a world that is speeding up?

Depth takes time. And depth takes reflection. If you have to keep up with everything and send emails all the time, there's no time to reach depth.

What's happening with our cellphones is that we put a thing in our pocket that's with us all the time that always offers an easy thing to do, rather than the important thing.

2017, the average American spent seventeen minutes a day reading books and 5.4 hours on their phone.

Many of the things we need to do are so obvious they are banal: slow down, do one thing at a time, sleep more. But even though at some level we all know them to be true, we are in fact moving in the opposite direction: toward more speed, more switching, less sleep.

He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

Sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.

Zum Erwerben eines Glücks gehört Fleiß und Geduld, und zur Erhaltung desselben gehört Mäßigung und Vorsicht. Langsam und Schritt für Schritt steigt man eine Treppe hinauf. Aber in einem Augenblick fällt man hinab, und bringt Wunden und Schmerzen genug mit auf die Erde.

Harmony is next to Godliness

Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.

ease. One of them, an agreeable

One ought, each day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.

The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Without haste, but without rest.