Quotes About Balance

I would not ever have her feel as though I needed more than what she could give me.

There's no doubt you balance me, Maren. I have fun when I'm with you and you make me laugh. You give that to me. That makes you very special and what you offer me very precious.

Our stomachs live in towns, said Mma Potokwani, patting the front of her dress. 'That is where the work is. Our stomachs know that. But our hearts are usually somewhere else.

And you can't have two stars in one relationship. Somebody has to be willing to be the wagon...at lease some of the time

People everywhere pray for a job where they can "work from home," so I guess, going with the gratitude theme, I should be grateful for this opportunity. I wonder how, though, when people get one of these jobs, they keep themselves from spending the entire day going on YouTube and looking at videos about baby deer that have been adopted by golden retrievers. Because that's all I've accomplished today so far.

I'll just go at my own pace. Nice and easy. Here we go. There, see? I'm doing it. I'm running! Hey, look at me! I'm running! I'm- Okay, well, that's enough of that. Whew. I mean, a girl could hyperventilate from doing that. And seriously, it's my first day. Don't want to overdo it.

The good thing about being in one's midtwenties is that you know nothing bad is going to happen if you don't return people's texts and voice mails

You can't look prim and righteous wearing a microscopic miniskirt and mile-high heels. Well it's pretty hard, anyway.

If your head is constantly stuck in a book, you're going to miss a lot.

I am going to start with the sock drawer because that is clearly the most important. You can't really concentrate on anything if your socks aren't right.

But maybe kissing was enough. Maybe kissing was the only thing that mattered, anyway. Maybe kissing could overcome the whole vampire/basketball thing.

The practice does lose its charm if overused—

his wagon to a star. He still thinks he's the star. And you can't have two stars in one relationship. Somebody has to be willing to be the wagon…at least some of the time." Oh!

you can burn just as many calories walking as you can running. So why run?

Very little in life if fair, Susannah

we'll save a lot on child care, since professors only work about three hours a week, so Tadd can stay home with them.

Maybe we shouldn't be living this way, without grass and trees, and ducks, always under pressure, always trying to catch up, never enough time or energy for the things we love, if we can even remember what those things are.

All of my own impulses to balance and move seemed to conflict with those of the guards, and I was jerked and jostled down the portico, just as graceful as a sick cat.

I wouldn't destroy an entire house to destroy one man. But I would destroy a man to destroy a house.

Do not offend one power to attain the favor of another.

where there is no peace, there are no trees.

But the call of life is as powerful as the call of death, and it is no weakness to answer to it," she said quietly.

My goal in life is to be content. By that I don't mean fine or basically satisfied. I don't mean settling. I mean, for last of better terms, feeling like I'm in the right life.

This seems like one of the hardest things about being sick in the way you're sick: being sick makes you stressed. But being stressed makes you sicker.