Quotes About Balance

Around the time I graduated from high school, I decided better to underachieve and have friendship than to overachieve and be alone.

I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again, and then after tennis I had homework. I didn't have time to play.

I'm happy that I took time off to become a mom and raise my daughter properly and build a bond between the two of us.

I was raising a child full time, sharing the responsibility with his mom. He lived with me half the time, so I chose not to go away and make certain movies.

I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don't have time to savor a whole bottle of wine.

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that.

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.

For much of the year, you're just trying to maintain your fitness. It's not often you get a lot of time to really concentrate on improving it.

Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.

The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.

A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together.

Music seems to hold everything together. It seems to make things not so chaotic sometimes. It seems to make things make more sense sometimes.

Love is the undisturbed balance that binds this universe together.

Go with the wind, you know, like a sailboat. I think that's really important when it comes to peace… inner peace especially. You can't help anyone else if you don't have it together for yourself.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you've got a kingdom.

Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.

It is perfect to be imperfect, because perfection is made up of many imperfections put together that makes it perfect.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.

I make lots of casseroles that have protein, veggies, carbs and good fats all together.

If we can stay with the tension of opposites long enough —sustain it, be true to it—we can sometimes become vessels within which the divine opposites come together and give birth to a new reality.

The people I know that have the hardest time keeping it together emotionally are people that don't workout.