Quotes About Balance

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Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance.

I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.

What you do can consume you if you don't have a release.

I make music almost, like, every day. But I don't release a lot of music.

What is important is not getting intoxicated with a good feeling or getting intoxicated even with an insight. These take many forms in our practice. We go through times of great release, where there has been physical holding for what feels like forever, and something opens up and releases.

I have no issues in talking about my personal life, but I feel it takes away from my career and my characters, especially when a film is about to release.

I am such a fiery woman and I am a real passionate woman and I get so much stuff built up inside of me that I can release all that on stage, and I kind of counterbalance it with the normal Maria that I am because with the real calming, natural kind of earthy spirit stuff and it kind of balances me out so I don't go too crazy.

I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children were never a hindrance.

On hindsight, I feel I should have given more time to sports. But I really got bitten by the acting bug.

What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.

The materialism, the brashness, the misogyny - everything in hip-hop is amplified. Misogyny is a good example of something that is completely amplified in hip-hop. I do think there is more than enough of a balance, though, for fans who are willing to search it out.

I think for me, I get so much love that it balances or overpowers the hate. When I started making music, it was kind of flawless for me. I didn't get any hate early in my hip-hop career.

The people who really know me understand that I have a tough exterior, but I'm actually just a hippie at heart.

I got my boobs done because I wanted to even out my lower half, and I thought that would take the focus away from my hips.

Our job is quite strange in that we hire a coach, and therefore, we're the boss. But coaches tell us what to do, and I think some coaches might struggle with the idea of a girl being the boss and telling them, 'I don't want to see you now. I want to have some time to myself.'

I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.

When you get successful, the money comes in and pretty soon you've got to hire an accountant, you've got to get up early, and then you've got a day job.

It is right to give every man his due.

By day I am a historian, by night a broadcaster.

I've been slashed, speared, elbowed, board-checked, butt-ended, and hit on the head as much as anyone. I just like to keep the ledger balanced.

Usually I am not overexcited about hits or down in the dumps for flops. I maintain a degree of equilibrium.

The Heartbreakers got kind of stuck with these hits and we had to play them like the records, which is a great balance too and we were really good at that.

Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.