Quotes About Balance

balance our fundamental urge for connection with the urge to experience our own agency.

die when I may, I want it said of me by those who know me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."   Late

so if a side of ourselves is not getting expressed—say, we are all 'persona' but no 'shadow'—we unconsciously seek out compensatory opposites, often via relationships

People expected too much, pushed themselves too hard, and therefore brought strains upon their minds that they were constitutionally incapable of withstanding.

Any system that focuses on order at the exclusion of disorder soon becomes a rigid, homogeneous equilibrium system where no change is likely or even possible.

For a relationship to work, their needs to be comprimise on both sides

You find a way to use them, Hattie, absolutely you do. But you don't give them so much focus that your family comes second... You look for an hour here and an hour there and you'll learn to make better use of your time than you did when you had days and days at your disposal." She squeezed Hattie's hand. "That is what God does, Hattie. Beauty for ashes. A change of heart instead of a change of circumstance.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Granted, your hard-working hubby is doing his fair share just by bringing home the bacon. But by encouraging him to take on a couple of those tasks himself, he'll soon have more respect for all you do on your family's behalf. If his excuse for turning you down is that he's "too tired" or that "it's women's work," there is a simple way to convince him otherwise: food poisoning.

can I help it if I'm a better assassin than I am a housewife?

When the gods amused themselves at a man's expense, they had a tendency to overdue.

I've been in plenty of situations where someone I'm dating had more time for a console than me.

Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively.

Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now.

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

There's a fine line between support and stalking and let's all stay on the right side of that.

The only way to have a good relationship is to have a good relationship with yourself.

The key to a successful life is balance. Take care of your physical, emotional, and spiritual health.

I know I walk in and out of several worlds each day.

Money fixes everything, even nature, if there is enough of it.

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.

A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.

We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.

No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive.