Quotes About Balance

When you travel with your family, you may not get the volume of work done you would if you were alone, but you can still do something while recharging. If nothing else, you can gather your own thoughts, write down ideas, observe people around you, and reflect on experiences. Working doesn't always mean putting words on paper.

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.

Creating a "cared for" environment is a way of showing yourself respect and reinforcing it daily.

Choose interests that are compatible with your time and energy constraints.

In my obsession with intimacy I hadn't paid much attention to the rest of the world.

The loved one should be a delightful accompaniment to our already intact lives, not the main event.

When it comes to my children, my ultimate goal for them is heaven, not Harvard. If they go to the latter on their way to heaven, that's great. But if I reverse that equation, I've failed them.

Not all of us need to spend every second of our lives trying to get somewhere other than where we are. Not all of us have to grab the brass ring on the carousel. Some of us just like to go around and enjoy the ride.

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life is not always about work and career, about testing your mettle or living up to a family name. Sometimes we need quiet and we need play to realize our true selves, to see where we fit in the world.

He really should have listened to his grandfather, because three weeks after he'd arrived, all hell had broken loose. Not with the project. The construction of phase one was on budget and on time. His professional life was in sync, but his personal life was a mess. All

Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.

The greatest stories come from trying to make your own contradictions meet and get along.

Hay que aprender a pasar la vida balanceando el peso que cargamos y nuestros sentimientos.

an impression of inescapable noise or acute disorder, a rush of adrenalin, sensations of alarm, a sense of unbalance or chaos, residual feeling of nausea and anxiety. These are the forms of bodily distress that occur when one's ingrained, taken-for-granted sense of how certain things are - and thus presumably will be and in some sense should be - is suddenly or insistently confronted by something very much at odds with it.

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.

never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

If women are choosing not to run the world, it's partly because men are choosing not to run the washer and dryer.

In short, women who do not opt out of demanding professional positions are more likely to opt out of demanding family obligations.

Aspiring female leaders risk being liked but not respected, or respected but not liked, in settings that may require individuals to be both in order to succeed.

Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?

Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you're good, bad things can still happen. And if you're bad, you can still be lucky.