Quotes about Balance
Positive characterizations are complex characterizations. That's all we need to know. They shouldn't be saccharine. They shouldn't feel like medicine.
— Ava DuVernay
Having a strong sense of self is fundamental to you, no matter what you're doing. I don't care if you're a stay at home mom raising kids or if you're the CEO of a corporation. It's really important for your survival.
— Shonda Rhimes
I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff.
— Olivia Newton-John
It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
— DH Lawrence
Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.
— Deepak Chopra
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
All you earnest young men out to save the world please, have a laugh.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fullness of life which each man seeks
— Reinhold Niebuhr
civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by their interests and corrupted by their prejudices.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The preservation of a democratic civilization requires the wisdom of the serpent and the harmlessness of the dove.
— Reinhold Niebuhr