Quotes About Balance

Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person.

Algunas veces, ser buena madre está reñido con ser buena persona.

Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.

Your choices and decisions are a reflection of how well you've set and followed your priorities.

We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.

I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.

I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them than to have them. I think this is one of the reasons why I get to live longer than my great-grandmother did, and why I get to produce more writing than she did, and why my marriage isn't in dire straits.

To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

These warm lovers of life, born under dancing stars, how without them was life tolerable for those, such as himself, whose bias was towards sadness, their stars cloud-hidden when their spirits woke to life....In this world, surely, there should always be a mating between the lovers of life and the endurers of it, in couples they should find a causeway for their feet and walk it together, the star-shine of the one comforting the darkness of the other.

Bringing up children, she thought, was like pouring ginger beer into a tumbler. All went well up to a certain point, and then it all frothed over the top.

Everyone needed someone in the world who was like his other hand. You can't hold much or do much with one hand only. It is with both hands that a man lifts the garnered gold of the wheatsheaf and the brimming bowl of milk, with both hands that he builds his house, with both hand, clasped together, that he prays.

The tragic capacity of the human race for going off course was a little balanced by the integrity of the animals who were always obedient to the law of their being. We were meant to love like that, thought Mary, simply because that's our law and we were told to obey it.

If you can't marry the man you love, then the next best thing is to marry one who is easily managed. . . . But the best thing of all, of course, is to marry a man beloved as well as manageable, as she herself intended to do.

A close union with the earth seemed to involve one in unison with a good deal more than the earth.

I'm still happy," said Marianne. "One can be happy and miserable both at once, you know.

This is the unspoken contract of a wife and her works. In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin—consideration for their feelings. And it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged.

Her life had seen many more sunsets than sunrises and it was probably time to even the score.

That's always the question. How to defend yourself without being nasty.

No woman is all sweetness." —Mme. Récamier

A garden always has a point.

Getting as much sleep as possible and following a healthy diet will stop you from feeling run-down if, like me, you're super-stressed.

I don't want someone to watch sports in bed. That drives me nuts.

It's better to oversleep and miss the boat than get up early and sink.