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A great life balances work with family, serious with playful, adventure with serenity. To imagine a life in balance, visualize an old-fashioned balance scale, with opposites weighed against each other. When living a life in balance, one indulges in the occasional hot fudge sundae, but balanced with a few bowls of oatmeal and small portions. The occasional hard run balanced with an afternoon sprawled in front of the television football game. An afternoon at the bungee-jump or zip-line balanced with time drifting on a placid lake. Rather than the constant grayness of moderation, a life in balance has points of interest and variability.
One of the crucial areas of balance is work-life balance - the balance between a career, with its satisfaction of creativity and financial reward, and family life with its reward of love and service.
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that
adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
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Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you.
They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
- Anais Nin
Manage the remarkable balance between acting from your heart and close to your gifts
with completing the obligations that your labor and tasks require of you.
Leverage opportunity AND seize joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
Choose with no regret.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
There is a fine line between perseverance and insanity. At what point have you tried your best, and it's time to do something different? It's a balance - a paradox. If you get in the habit of giving up as soon as something gets difficult, your life won't work, but if you keep tilting at windmills - madly trying the same thing again and again, your life also won't work.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life is defined more by its risks than by its samenesses.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein
To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
Balance activity with serenity,
wealth with simplicity,
persistence with innovation,
community with solitude,
familiarity with adventure,
constancy with change,
leading with following.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Balance being of service -
both to this generation and to generations yet unborn -
with renewing your vitality by play and celebration.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
A time for everything:
a time to relax and a time to be busy,
a time to frolic and a time to labor,
a time to receive and a time to give,
a time to begin and a time to finish.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To live is to choose.
But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Three Rules of Life ...
1. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
2. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
3. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition - they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
Find your balance and stand with it. Find your song and sing it out. Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance. Find the questions that only you know how to ask and the answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ask today as you consider the many choices in your view -
what is the highest and best use of your talents, skills and abilities?
When you answer that, seize the opportunity to sharpen those qualities even more sharply by applying your focused effort.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Play with life,
laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your informed, "no," to a particular service allows another to offer their gifted and unreserved, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
CALM IN CHAOS
In the midst of the flurry - clarity.
In the midst of the storm - calm.
In the midst of divided interests - certainty.
In the many roads - a certain choice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What is the best balance between comfortable habit and skeptical questioning, between following community traditions and independent thinking, between acceptance and crusading for change?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose your Habits, Choose your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter, but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
It's a paradox. How does one balance living in the now with preparing responsibly for the future? The key to this dilemma lies in the distinction between "worrying about the future," and "preparing for the future." The two concepts are not at all the same.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some days are simply meant for playing.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
What if we just acted like everything was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
In all things and in all ways, choice impacts virtually every element of our life. It bears repeating that even those things which seem out of reach of our choice are governed by how we choose to perceive them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
The most important promises are the ones we make to ourselves.
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Listen to the compass of your heart. All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We disrespect ourselves and our free-will whenever we say that we "need to do" something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have no need to conform to the stereotypes others have defined for me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I set my own course through the ocean of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require, but never surrender your inner peace.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Question every assumption and expectation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Urgent? Why?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To say "too busy" is merely to say "confused priorities."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time is my friend.
I choose never to be a prisoner of urgency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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