Quotes about Balance
Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.
- John Updike
Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.
- John Updike
Nature is the index and context of all health and if we have an appetite it is there to be satisfied, satisfying thereby the cosmic order.
- John Updike
and of AIDS. The virus too small to imagine travelling through our fluids, even a drop or two of saliva or cunt slime, and unlocking our antibodies with its little picks, so that our insides lose their balance and we topple into pneumonia, into starvation. Love and death, they can't be pried apart anymore.
- John Updike
All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.
- John Wooden
Be quick - but don't hurry.
- John Wooden
Your family is what counts, and you must always remember that as you get caught up in your own professional responsibilities.
- John Wooden
Your family is what counts, and you must always remember that as you get caught up in your own professional responsibilities.
- John Wooden
I'm very proud of the fact that while all the records were being set at UCLA by our basketball teams, I felt exactly the same way. Family is first. Always. Always.
- John Wooden
It is most difficult in my mind, to seperate success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.
- John Wooden
You Can't Stop the Waves but You Can Learn to Surf
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn