Quotes about Balance
Solitude, community, and ministry are certainly not just for celibates! Celibates also have a hard time keeping up.
— Henri Nouwen
The problem of using your time well is not a problem of the mind but of the heart.
— Henry B. Eyring
We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.
— Isabel Allende
I didn't always have time to practice as much as I wanted to do, that was a real problem for me in high school and college.
— Jon Gordon
A key point to bear in mind: The value of attentiveness varies in proportion to its object. You're better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.
— Marcus Aurelius
Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
The happiest people are those who have learned to mix play with their work and to bind the two together with enthusiasm.
— Napoleon Hill
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
— Napoleon Hill
Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some day, we shall stop and build a house, when we shall have gone far enough. But we do not have to hasten. The days before us are without end, like the forest.
— Ayn Rand
In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." (Atlas Shrugged)
— Ayn Rand
Only the man who extols the purity of a love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love. But observe that most people are creatures cut in half who keep swinging desperately to one side or to the other.
— Ayn Rand