Quotes About Balance

I really don't want to put more than a couple of records out a year, and I think that makes sense - on an artistic level, but also for my label.

I think it's common to want to label things as all good or all bad and what I'm finding is that every situation, person, event, has good and bad in it.

If you labor heavily upon a work of art, then part of what you are saying is, 'This is a heavy work of art.' If you happen to be trying to say something about lightness, then the art should be light as well.

I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.

My father was always Labour, and my mother was always Conservative, so I tended to sort of go in the middle.

The lack of carbohydrates can make you a little crazy.

Just because we want our favorite team to win does not mean there's any lack of toughness when a player chooses family first.

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95)

We are not big believers in making decisions solely on the basis of the numbers. But we do think that ignoring what the numbers tell you is pretty silly.

I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.

No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.

My mom used to say it doesn't matter how many kids you have... because one kid'll take up 100% of your time so more kids can't possibly take up more than 100% of your time.

Our boundaries are blurred when our desire to be loved and needed by others seduces us into becoming overly involved in their lives. Or when we find ourselves overly committed with tasks and social engagements—even ones we enjoy. We must remember we need time alone, time for the stillness within to nurture us.

Self-pity is a parasite that feeds on itself. Many of us are inclined toward self-pity, not allowing for the balance of life's natural tragedies. We will face good and bad times—and they will pass. With certainty they will pass.

We were obviously going to have to have a talk about the difference between "maintaining security" and "being a dick.

There are things we want, and things we may have.... Sanity lies in knowing the difference.

I cannot be a monk, nor a crusader, nor a tumbler. I must stay here and hem sheets until I die. My humors are greatly out of balance. I prescribe for myself wormwood and spiced wine and some of the custard left from supper, and I will let all of the dogs sleep in my bed.

Life it too short to deal with crazy people.

I'm not really crazy about all this tit-for-tat stuff. I'm always asked to be the one to first give up the tit.

Seeking a balance between doing and being is complex. But as my friend Lisa Whelchel reminds me, we're human beings, not human doings. Perhaps it's best, then, to err on the side of less doing and more being, to spend time in thankful quiet each day before racing and chasing in this hurried and harried culture of ours.

We must find the fulcrum — the pivot point that balances gentle honesty with hard truth enveloped in love.

Maybe if we focused less on what we do and more on who — and whose — we are, we can find that super mom status we are really longing for.

As you grow in living life on purpose and saying no to the wrong things, you will better invest your time and gifts where they count the most. In your effort to live wisely with your time, be careful that you don't see time as just yours. God has gifted you with time. Our time is not really our time. God gives it to us to steward well for his purpose. So be careful of becoming too stingy with your time! There has to be a balance.

No, love could not be some great heedless unchanging thing. It was shifting ground, changing balance day to day. A word, a gift, a memory, a failed intention. We are only people being as we are, she thought. Anything else is self-deception.