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"The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be."
"It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family."
"If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance."
"Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of . . . mature people is of crucial importance."
"Balance the federal budget now, not 15 years from now, not 20 years from now, but now. And throw out the entire federal tax system, replace it with a fair tax, a consumption tax, that by all measurements is just that. It's fair."
"Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life."
"Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance."
"Affirmations are our mental vitamins, providing the supplementary positive thoughts we need to balance the barrage of negative events and thoughts we experience daily."
"The balance in your life is more important than the balance in your checking account."
"Balance out the good things and the bad that have happened in your life and you will have to acknowledge that you are still way ahead. You are unhappy because you have lost those things in which you took pleasure? But you can also take comfort in the likelihood that what is now making you miserable will also pass away."
"My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada."
"Men and women balance each other out, and we have to get to a point where we are comfortable with appreciating each other."
"The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow."
"Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes."
"The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people."
"I read at least one periodical every month by a political group I dislike - to keep some sense of balance. The overwhelming stupidity of political movements is caused by the fact that political types never read anything but their own gang's agit-prop."
"Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness."
"The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in modern life."
"Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff."
"Stillness and action are relative, not absolute, principles. It is important to find a balance of yin and yang, not just in qigong, but in everyday life. In movement, seek stillness and rest. In rest, be mindful and attentive."
