Balance Quotes

"Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest."

- Mark Buchanan

"To live well is to work well, to show a good activity."

- Thomas Aquinas

"The rhythm of work and rest seems to help us function more purposefully and energetically, living in the responsive obedience to the pattern God designed for us."

- Lynne M. Baab

"The savings bank of human existence is the weekly Sabbath."

- William Garden Blaikie

"Sabbath ceasing means to cease not only from work itself, but also from the need to accomplish and be productive, from the worry and tension that accompany our modern criterion of efficiency, from our efforts to be in control of our lives as if we were God, from our possessiveness and our enculturation, and, finally, from the humdrum and meaninglessness that result when life is pursued without the Lord at the center of it all."

- Marva J. Dawn

"He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward."

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

"I never knew a man to escape failure, in either body or mind, who worked seven days in the week."

- Sir Robert Peel

"“I’ve yet to meet a pastor whose life is balanced, rhythmic, whole, centered, [and] anchored who is not practicing Sabbath."

- Pete Scazerro

"Don’t let success get to your head and don’t let failure get to your heart."

- SZA

"Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness."

- Susan Faludi

""April, the perfect blend of showers and sunshine, teaches us the beauty of balance.""

- Sylvia Plath

"I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life.’"

- Maya Angelou

"A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men."

- Roald Dahl

"Bowling's not just about brute strength. It's about finesse and timing"

- Let It Ride

"Bowling is not a game of speed, but a game of grace and precision."

- Unknown tenpin philosopher

"Don't worry about the pressure or the responsibility. Just live in it, have fun, and when everything seems to be going right, just stay humble and remember your family."

- Roman Reigns

"Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went."

- Jonathan Sacks

"Allāh does not charge a soul except [with that within] its capacity."

- Quran 2:286

"But seek, through that which Allah has given you, the home of the Hereafter; and [yet], do not forget your share of the world. And do good as Allah has done good to you. And desire not corruption in the land. Indeed, Allah does not like corrupters."

- Quran

"Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks."

- Henri Bergson

"There is literally nothing in nature that blooms all year long, so do not expect yourself to do so."

- liryae

"Life is amazing. And then it's awful. And then it's amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it's ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That's just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it's breathtakingly beautiful."

- L.R. Knost

"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep."

- Homer

"It's all about the quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family."

- Philip Green

"Seek out the things on the edge, the things in balance. There's a reason why we see beauty in the sunrise and the sunset, in the change of the seasons, and where the land meets the sea."

- Kevin A. Kuhn

"I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; Yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge."

- Randy Morgenson

"Adventure. Excitement. A Jedi craves not these things."

- Yoda

"A healthy ecology is the basis for a healthy economy."

- Claudine Schneider

"You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough."

- Wendell Berry

"Bowling is the perfect combination of meditation and math"