Quotes About Balance

C'est la vanité, ce n'est pas d'être équilibré qui va me garder indemne

Ce n'est pas votre faute. -JE SAIS. -Mais vous l'autorisez. (Silence) Non ? Le matin apporte la défaite. belle douleur qui dit que j'existe et demain une vie plus équilibrée. -Si je suis en colère c'est parce que je comprends, pas le contraire. Je vous ai toujours bien aimé même quand je vous détestais.

Do you have deep feelings for nature or do you year detachment? Do you prefer sex or self-control?

the wild velocity of motherhood, an enforced momentum forbidding contemplation.

My friend who runs marathons, throws elaborate parties, sews quilts for everyone she knows, works full-time, and has three children does all of this not in spite of her useless husband but because of him.

Today was very full, but the problem isn't today. It's tomorrow. I'd be able to recover from today if it weren't for tomorrow. There should be extra days, buffer days, between the real days.

The dark owns everything, but our sun comes out often enough that we think the universe is half dark, half light.

Being a mother is as beautiful and rewarding as it is painful and devastating. It is the highest of highs and the lowest of lows.

I have a full life: I have two amazing kids, I have great friends, great family. And right now, that's plenty for me to manage. A new relationship just seems like way too much work.

If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please; the ones who are often closest to you. If you choose a path that you yourself want to take, then you're going to be much kinder to the people in your life.

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

I don't smoke, don't drink much, and go to the gym five times a week. I live a healthy lifestyle and feel great. I can run a marathon, you know.

I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food.

I also think it was important for me and Freddie to be able to have a lot of time to share our lives at the beginning of our marriage rather than my coming home at 9 or 10 at night from the set. Things have really worked out for the best for both of us.

An edge of a sword is made as much from the steel taken away as the steel that is left

I wonder-maybe the key is balance. Maybe it's about living in the moment while still keeping your eye on the big picture-on all the pictures.

She hadn't been a beautiful woman when she was alive; her jaw was too heavy, eyes too small. But she'd clearly been a woman with appaling force of character; the heavy jaw was almost balanced by the uncompromising line of her mouth, and those small, flat, gray eyes reminded me of the one time I had come face to face with a rattlesnake somewhere out in the Grasslands to the west of the Bastion.

They did not care that this serene harmony was built on blood and death and pain.

It's good to be the sunshine, but sometimes it's all right to be the rain, too. A good, balanced life needs both.

Doing something for yourself doesn't make you selfish. My students tell me it's called self-care.

What you never read about is the millions of normal women who are struggling to hold it all together and don't own a planner because we don't exactly know what we'd write in one!

As women, we often feel we have to put our needs at the bottom of the pile. But why are we less important than others?

She'd read somewhere that if you gave your brain tasks to do it stopped overthinking. She'd given herself a lot of tasks. Sometimes she felt like a robot. It seemed like a lifetime since she'd felt human.

The golf links lie so near the millThat almost every dayThe laboring children can look outAnd watch the men at play.