Quotes about Balance

As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

You can't decide to value your child sometimes, and then put a game of Farmville, or golf, or a scrapbooking session before kids on other days. Values are non-negotiable like that.

Your ability to choose between the important and the unimportant is the key determinant of your success in life and work.

If you don't spend quality time with your loved ones or do things that are important in your life, someone or something less important will take up your time.

Maybe you can't have it both ways. His life and your life. How do you put two lives together, anyway?

Be flirty but not too flirty. Be confident but not aggressive. Be funny but in a low-key, quiet way. Eat cheeseburgers, but don't get fat. Be chill, but don't lose control.

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

The scientific way of thinking is at once imaginative and disciplined. This is central to its success. Science invites us to let the facts in, even when they don't conform to our preconceptions. It counsels us to carry alternative hypotheses in our heads and see which best fit the facts. It urges on us a delicate balance between no-holds-barred openness to new ideas, however heretical, and the most rigorous skeptical scrutiny of everything—new ideas and established wisdom.

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.

Love turns work into rest.