Quotes About Balance

Being thin is not more important than enjoying life

The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties.

Life is about being a versatile athlete and training in all realms of life.

Real life is happening outside and not in front of a computer.

If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.

Life could not be entirely devoted to debauchery and monkeys. Magnus had to finance all the drinking somehow.

Make gentle the life of this world.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

In the beginning, our one-pointed focus on our goal of personal freedom is necessary; however, if carried to extremes, it can also lead to a kind of narrow-mindedness and sense of claustrophobia.

The Three-Step Emotional Rescue Plan described in this book isn't about having a perfect life or even a completely pain-free life. In the end, life is still life, with all of its challenges, mysteries, comedies, and tragedies. Some days may be stormier than others, but you know that sunshine will follow the blustery weather.

As I said, either friends or the country, some . . . either some very dear person or some very dear place seems necessary to relieve life's daily grey, and to show that it is grey. If possible, one should have both.

I awake each morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savour the world. This makes it hard to plan my day.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

One's not half of two; two are halves of one.

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane. Even if the dogs are small.

we'll deal with it, because the good outweighs the bad.

Lots of girls don't notice when they are in this situation. They are so focused on their boyfriends that they don't remember they had a life at all before their romances, so they don't become upset that the boyfriend isn't interested.

Never eat anything bigger than your ass

She could not explain in so many words, but she felt that those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

Nature pulls one way and human nature another.