Quotes About Balance

In my life as a wife and mother, I'm always conscious of my desire to be present.

If you live your life all out today, not only is it fun, but you are preventing a midlife crisis.

My family lives a pretty normal life.

How you manage yourself as you deal with stuff in your life largely determines the quality of your life.

My family's great and everybody's happy and healthy and my career is good. But personally, I had to sacrifice a lot in my own personal life. And I regret that.

Do not let your life, ministry or organization go faster than your resources.

It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise no more.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

I've sort of remarried a few years ago and have had a couple more children in the last couple of years. And so home life is taking up a lot of my time.

The more you meditate the better life gets.

A running theme in my life is my inability to say no to anything.

It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters.

With an estimated population of nine billion people by 2050, we cannot continue to consume resources at the same rate and maintain our quality of life.

I don't mean I give the same intensity to everything I do - if I did that, I'd be dead, but I'm very conscious, I make notes, and I have a fairly good idea of what's happening in my life.

My life at the moment is a bit like my wardrobe. Organised chaos.

I've managed to keep my career going in a way that suits me. I'll perform, and then I'll go home to my actual life, and I've never been so visible.

For most of my life I have known how to control my feelings. If you can control your feelings, you can pretty much control your whole world. It's amazingly effective.

When the material, psychological and spiritual dimensions are brought into balance, life becomes whole, and this union brings feelings of comfort and security.

I had worked my whole life. Until I became a mother, that's the only way I measured my value.

Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.

There's something so glorious in giving control to the world. I think that's what I'm trying to do in my films-control the world but also let it be chaotic, let there be life.

You can do something really radical, which is turn your phone off and reclaim your private life.

Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.

My mother wasn't a stickler for the more practical approaches to life.