Quotes about Balance

Physical fitness is of utmost importance for the simple reason that neither mind nor body can function well without it.

Those who talk too much do little else. If you talk more than you listen, you not only deprive yourself of many opportunities to accumulate useful knowledge, but you also disclose your plans and purposes to people who will take great delight in defeating you, because they envy you.

Reese, your books might not tell you this, so I will. Every heart has two parts, the part that pumps and the part that loves. If you're going to spend your life fixing broken hearts, then learn about both. You can't just fix one with no concern for the other.

Compromise occurs when our behavior fails to reflect our priorities. In what ways have you compromised, and how can you get back on track?

Water that's not moving becomes stagnant. And if there's not someone pouring into you, the pitcher gets dusty. A person is most satisfied and most useful when she is both giving and receiving. In marriage. In life. In friendship. With God too.

We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.

What's fair ain't necessarily right

some advice about how to keep on with a brain greedy for news nobody could live with in a world happy to provide it.

A perfect thing is not everything.

He wanted her in that room with him giving him the balance he was losing, the ballast and counterweight to the stone of sorrow New York City had given him.

There's a line between revision and fretting, just working it to death." —Toni Morrison

Life supports what supports more of life