Quotes About Balance

Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.

Motherhood is a predicament. How to live fully inside of it with any grace?

Then she said, "Your plays balance on air I mean they are air I mean they are performed in air so they are air. "If a whole city could balance on a seed then a city could balance on a play because a play is air and everything is air. "Your next play should be about a seed because a seed is smaller than an almond. Or maybe your next play should be smaller than an almond, about nothing, about air.

I have been being careful since the first minute I saw you. I am the Queen of Carefulness. I shall go on being careful for ever, if you like - so long as I might be a bit reckless, sometimes, when we are quite alone

Marriages are like pianos. They go in and out of tune.

A family man never makes a good family doctor; he has too many worries of his own.

One gets paid back in the way one deserves.

And I made another curtsey, and winked.—Two curious things to do together, as it happened, and I would not recommend you try it: for I fear the wink unbalanced the curtsey; and I'm certain the curtsey threw off the wink.

La felicità è una cosa talmente fragile di questi tempi. E' come se non ce ne fosse abbastanza per tutti.

E feci un'altra riverenza strizzando l'occhio. Due cose curiose da fare assieme , e non vi consiglierei di provare: poiché temo che la strizzatina d'occhio abbia sbilanciato la riverenza, e sono certa che la riverenza abbia sciupato la strizzatina.

It was heavy, and I staggered when I lifted it; but it was strangely satifying to have a real burden upon my shoulders – a kind of counterweight to my terrible heaviness of heart.

Technology freed us up . . . to imprison us further. It's created the imperative to go faster, to take on more ideas, and to juggle more.

Walking and hiking does this. Cooking does, too. The witchy, grandmotherly type of cooking where you prepare things from scratch and you treat it as a hobby, not a chore to be rushed through. Fermenting vegetables gets me back in sync. Yoga works. Hot and slow and controlled by breath, breaking down to our bone-heavy pace.

Do not let your to-do list (written or mental) become an idol directing your life. Instead, ask My Spirit to guide you moment by moment.

Circumstances are in flux, and the world seems to be whirling around you. The only way to keep your balance is to fix your eyes on Me, the One who never changes.

of your consciousness. Instead of single-mindedly pursuing some goal,

The world is so complex and overstimulating that you can easily lose your sense of direction. Doing countless unnecessary activities will dissipate your energy.

A leisurely pace accomplishes more than hurried striving.

You cannot serve both God and Money." MATTHEW 6 : 24

No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. —Matthew 6:24

time for everything, and everything in its time.

IN ORDER TO DO SOMETHING WELL, you need to feel at peace about the many other things you could be doing but are not.

A successful day is one in which you have stayed in touch with Me, even if many things remain undone at the end of the day. Do not let your to-do list (written or mental) become an idol directing your life.

she might have been truthful and had tried to be gentle, but to be fearless was so much harder. The fearless thing to do was not to run away and leave Hugh behind: it was to face him, head on, and try to resurrect what they had — try to fix it, no matter how difficult and painful that was. Because he did love her. And she loved him. Heavenly had said you only need to be sure about one thing. This was it. They just needed to get the balance back again.