Quotes About Balance

I live a sensible life. You know, I don't take on too much.

When it is possible, I choose to have a quiet life.

... what a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion.

...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.

I have a life outside the arenas.

I'm beginning to believe that anything I do to extend my life is just going to be outweighed by the agony of living it.

When I see a non-yogi [benefit], that's when it really affects my life.

If your ambition comes at the price of an unbalanced life, that there's nothing else that gives you comfort but success, it's not worth it.

There's no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race.

You can have information or you can have a life, but you can't have both.

Many of us spend more time on the C's of life than on the A's of life. Don't allow trivial things to crowd out the important ones.

I'm glad I lived such a full life before I settled down into a family because I got to enjoy it and get it out of my system.

To me, voluntary simplicity means integration and awareness in my life.

One has two duties - to be worried and not to be worried.

The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.

The energy that flows into what you do, although it may be high energy, is very peaceful energy. It is not out of alignment with life.

When you observe yourself reacting to what are minor things in your life, you will find that the mechanism is the same as when major things seem to go wrong in your life and there is upset.

It seems like a necessary balance to life, being part of the community.

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

It often falls, in course of common life, that right long time is overborne of wrong.

One must choose, in life, between making money and spending it. There's no time to do both.

It's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life.

In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.

Thankfully, the life of an actor can be quite balanced anyway. If you look over the course of a whole year, you do tend to have periods of down time. So, it's about managing the balance.