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Quotes About Balance

I spend 60 percent of my time planning, 60 percent with people, and all other duties are completed with whatever time is left
~ Alden W. Clausen
It's important to make time for yourself.
~ Chloe Zhao
Return telephone calls promptly but be judicious about the time spent on the phone.
~ Mary Kay Ash
I have to paint at least two times a week, and there's not enough time in the day to do everything.
~ Mary Lynn Rajskub
There is much in nature against us. But we forget: Take nature altogether since time began, Including human nature, in peace and war, And it must be a little more in favor of man.
~ Robert Frost
One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
~ Robert Frost
Not everyone is at the top of his or her game all the time - you can't be.
~ Ron Padgett
Too often we become so consumed with how we spend our days that we lose track of how we are spending our lives.
~ Sally Warner
Avoid running at all times.
~ Satchel Paige
I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time.
~ Sigourney Weaver
It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and Emerson.
~ Stephen Leacock
No one ever gets anywhere seeing both sides.
~ Margaret Mitchell
You bite off more than you can chew, 'course you're going to choke. One bite at a time. And that goes for thinking things, too, not just food.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
Tanis listens to his feelings. He does not suppress them, as does the knight, or hide them, as does the Plainsman. Tanis realizes that sometimes a leader must think with his heart and not his head." Raistlin glanced at her. "Remember that.
~ Margaret Weis
two!" The centaur glanced back, his eyes glittering in the moonlight. "It be my job to see thee stays on. Relax. Put thy hands on me rump to balance thyself. There, now. Grip with thy legs.
~ Margaret Weis
The rose tree needs the rain to survive, as well as the sun.
~ Margaret Weis
Sometimes we have to avoid thinking about the problems life presents. Otherwise we'd suffocate. - Hiroshima Mon Amour, Marguerite Duras
~ Marguerite Duras
Je suis devenue folle en pleine raison.
~ Marguerite Duras
Elle n'était pas malade de sa folie, elle la vivait comme la santé.
~ Marguerite Duras
Se dice: loco de alegría. También podría decirse: cuerdo de dolor.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
toda felicidad me da casi siempre la cordura.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Rien ne m'explique : mes vices et mes vertus n'y suffisent absolument pas ; mon bonheur le fait davantage.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Allí donde un sastre remendaría su tela, donde un calculista hábil corregiría sus errores, donde el artista retocaría su obra maestra todavía imperfecta, la naturaleza prefiere volver a empezar desde la arcilla, desde el caos, y ese derroche es lo que llamamos el orden de las cosas.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Life was to me a horse to whose motion one yields, but only after having trained the animal to the utmost.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar