Quotes About Balance

I think she loves me. But she loves herself more. Or how could she do what she does?

But one of the things you learn in therapy is that there comes a point when you have to take care of yourself.

Just live well. Just live.

She has drunk a lot. There have been at least three glasses since she got here, and there were many more back at the bar. But she has reached that rare, pleasant state of alcoholic equilibrium. She is not drunk enough to feel sick or woozy. She is just merry enough to be suspended, floating in this pleasurable moment.

All this nonsense about women having it all. We never could, and we never shall. Women always have to make the difficult choices, but there is a great consolation in simply doing something you love.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times.

marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.

if not exactly well, then not scarily ill.

Nathan was made of equanimity.

After the emotional turbulence of the past week, it was good to be surrounded by a bit of normality.

What if I like watching television? What if I don't want to do much else other than read a book?' My

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small children and a gray-looking husband (they left the

How is it you have the right to destroy my life but I'm not allowed a say in yours?

I had to make sure that I didn't lose sight of the rest of me.

But I'm not an automation. I'm human and I have a life, and just for a short while I had responsibilities that meant I couldn't be the employee you – or I – would have liked. ~Louisa Clark

This is your way of telling me I should be doing something far more worthwhile than peeling your potatoes.' 'I'm telling you there's a whole world out there. But that I'd be very grateful if you'd do me some potatoes first.' He smiled at me, and I couldn't help but smile back.

Sometimes for our own sanity we just have to look at the bigger picture.

Perhaps all freedom—physical, personal—really only came at the cost of somebody or something else.

Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.

Collaboration and Competition. We must re-educate and improve awareness of the falsehoods erected around Darwinism and increase the recognition that evolution and ecology are a dynamic balance of competitive and mutually supportive linkages.

It doesn't matter how much success you have in your career; if you fail at home you are a failure.

gentle dog and then I have this angry, mean-spirited, and negative dog and they fight all the time. I don't know which is going to win." The wise man thinks for a moment and he says, "I know which is going to win. The one you feed the most, so feed the positive dog.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.