Balance Quotes

"God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet."

- Neale Donald Walsch

"The discipline of jujutsu should serve your life. If it stops serving you, then make an adjustment in your relationship to it."

- Roy Dean

"Be patient, have fun, learn the basics. Enjoy the journey."

- Jared Weiner

"A balanced game will allow you to attack from both sides, making your skills more complete, more effective, and essentially doubling your techniques."

- Mark Johnson

"Sometimes I just want to be with my family and watch a movie and eat some popcorn. But when I step on the mat I know there is no other place I’d rather be."

- Marcelo Garcia

"A balanced game will allow you to attack from both sides, making your skills more complete, more effective, and essentially doubling your techniques. Always drill both sides. Balance is good."

- Mark Johnson

"I wasn’t willing to sacrifice my game, but I also wasn’t willing to sacrifice my family time. So I decided to sacrifice sleep, and that was that."

- Kobe Bryant

"Life is a balance of holding on and letting go."

- Rumi

"There’s a thin but clear line between enjoying your youth and fucking up your future."

- Ed Latimore

"Rather than struggling to become bigger fish, we might concentrate our energies on finding smaller ponds or smaller species to swim with, so our own size will trouble us less."

- Alain de Botton

"Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished."

- Lao Tzu

"The environment and the economy are really both two sides of the same coin. If we cannot sustain the environment, we cannot sustain ourselves."

- Wangari Maathai

"If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together."

- Richard Nixon

"Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it’s everything in between that makes it all worth living."

- Bob Marley

"A one day holiday can at times be better than a one week vacation if you totally unplug for that one day!"

- Catherine Pulsifer

"The thing I love most about going on vacation is that I get to leave behind any kind of schedule."

- Kelly Clarkson

"Vacations mean a change of pace, a gentleness with ourselves, a time of rest and renewal, and a time to stretch ourselves and encounter new people, new lands, new ways, and new options."

- Anne Wilson Schaef

""Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.""

- Don Herold

""Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays.""

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes."

- Jim Morrison

""It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.""

- William Faulkner

"Fast running isn’t forced. You have to relax and let the run come out of you."

- Desiree Linden

"Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat. In our mad rush for progress and modern improvements let’s be sure we take along with us all the old-fashioned things worth while."

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

"Open your arms to change but don't let go of your values."

- Dalai Lama XIV

"Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress."

- Melody Beattie

"Enjoy what you can and ignore the rest. Let’s not waste any energy fighting things that are outside our control."

- Paulo Coelho

"Play with passion, win with humility, lose with grace."

"Just like baseball, life requires strategy, patience, and a bit of luck."

"If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according to what others think, you will never be rich."

"In October’s calm embrace, we find a season of balance—where endings feel like beginnings and change feels like home."