Quotes About Balance

Every human creature," he used to say, "has three essential things that must always be in harmony among themselves: a heart, a brain, and a wallet. If these three elements don't work together, problems will come.

Saturn Return is where you reconcile the parts of your life that you've chosen with the parts where you've let yourself get carried away.

Every day, give yourself a good mental shampoo.

Nature is my medicine.

Early to bed, early to rise, leaves me cranky with rings under my eyes.

The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes.

Because I am exactly where I should be, doing exactly what I should be doing. That is peace. Eat.

My mom's part of the bed smells like cinnamon rolls. My dad's part smells like pinecones. Right in the middle it's all mixed up perfectly—

It's a well-known fact that professional organizers who have a three-year-old and a toddler get an exemption from perfection.

Without Mona, Hanna felt like a great outfit without matching accessories, a screw-driver that was all orange juice and no vodka, and an iPod without headphones. She just felt wrong.

No matter how much any one of us wanted to play God, no matter how much we wished it were possible, the world wasn't supposed to be in the hands of just one person

But just remember, the world has a way of balancing out: when someone is given back, something else must be taken away.

She was too busy to freak out, but that was the only thing keeping her from freaking out.

Don't you think it's a good idea to . . . I don't know. To slow down sometimes? To look around and see what you want out of life?

awesome!" Maya clapped her hands. "And drums!" Emily sighed. "I really couldn't. I have swimming, like, every day after school.

I don't choose between my house phone and my mobile. I don't choose between my laptop and my notebook. And I don't intend to choose between my e-reader and my bookshelf.

I'm not sure how much easier it is for a mother to balance her life now - have we simply swapped one set of restrictions for another?

In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home, be the supermum that every child deserves, the perfect wife, meet the demands of elderly parents, and still stay sane.

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

I am torn between the freedom of this adventure and the benefits of civilization despite its constraints.

It's always been important for writers to be disciplined but now even more so. In addition to the traditional displacement activities like cleaning the fridge or eating cake writers are faced with a plethora of online possibilities (some of which may be professionally worthwhile as well as interesting and fun). As a writer it's important to learn how to focus so you can do both as and when you need to.

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.