Balance in All Things

A time for everything: a time to relax and a time to be busy,
a time to frolic and a time to lay up food for the winter,
a time to receive and a time to give,
a time to begin and a time to finish.
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One has to find a balance between
what people need from you
and what you need for yourself.
- Jessye Norman

Change must always be balanced with some degree of consistency.
- Ron D. Burton

We have an obligation to live in harmony with God's creation.
- Bruce Babbitt

Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

Further reading: Balance vs. Moderation: Eight Ways to Balance Your Life

Creating Balance

A List of Gratitudes

Renew Yourself

Yin-Yang

Living in Harmony

Movie Quotes

There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix

Every man dies, but not every man really lives.
- the character Braveheart in the movie Braveheart

You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation

Inside most people there's a feeling of being separate,
separated from everything ... And they're not.
They're part of absolutely everyone, and everything.
- the movie Powder

For man with no forgiveness in heart, life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2

Further reading: What`s in a Name?

Meditation

How to Begin a Rewarding Journaling Practice

Balance is Key

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 

  Better learn balance. Balance is key. - Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 

  Balance activity with serenity, wealth with simplicity, persistence with innovation, community with solitude, familiarity with adventure, constancy with change, leading with following. - jlh 

 A time for everything: a time to relax and a time to be busy, a time to frolic and a time to lay up food for the winter, a time to receive and a time to give, a time to begin and a time to finish. - jlh

Balance activity with serenity, wealth with simplicity

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 activity with serenity, wealth with simplicity, persistence with innovation, community with solitude, familiarity with adventure, constancy with change, leading with following.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Read more about balance in my latest article: Finding Balance in Life

Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance. - Miyagi

Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in movie The Next Karate Kid

Anything worth doing is worth enjoying, and that includes religion and spiritual celebration.

Further reading: Karate Kid Movie Quotes - Miyagi Quotes

Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the willingness to deal with them joyfully. - jlh

A common denominator of all religions is that they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people. - jlh

CELEBRATION - the seventh Point of Simply An Inspired Life