Quotes About Balance

for someone who's lived with privilege their whole life, equality feels like a loss.

After all, I want to live my life, not rush through it.

When a woman comes into your life, things organize themselves.

In relationship there are always two types of person: one weaker and the other stronger one. It's never easier to live being as weaker one!

No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.

Wherever something stands, something else will stand beside it.

PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE I have so much to do today. I can't possibly get it all done, so I'm not going to start.

Women were the reason I became a monk - and, ah, the reason I switched back.

If you have a million things to do, adding item number 1,000,001 is not such a big deal. When, on the other hand, you have nothing to do, getting out of bed and washing yourself before 2:00 P.M. feels like too much work to even contemplate.

She would hear the verbal balancing act: urgency mixed like gin amid the tonic of consideration.

Water that's not moving becomes stagnant. And if there's not someone pouring into you, the pitcher gets dusty. A person is most satisfied and most useful when she is both giving and receiving. In marriage. In life. In friendship. With God too.

The trouble with my wife began when she needed Jesus and I needed a cat.

It's a crazy world, so I meditate for 20 minutes. I also meditate for 20 minutes before a concert.

For me, if I have the choice between an extra 45 minutes in bed or getting up at 4:30 A.M. to go to the gym, I will always choose bed.

Obviously, I don't want to be in the box for over a hundred minutes during the season, but at the same time I have to try to play with an edge and battle out there.

Restful sleep is a key ingredient to living a miraculous life. I'm not saying we need eight or ten hours a night to feel fully rested. In fact, sometimes less sleep can be more restorative than many hours. The key is to have real sleep... the drooling-on-the-pillow kind of sleep.

At one point, I kind of looked in the mirror and said, 'You know, you're a mom. You're a wife. People count on you; you can't go off the deep end into this kind of crazy musical swirl.'

It's as much looking out your rear-view mirror as the windshield. You want to make sure you put your car in front of the right line. You're constantly looking behind you.

If you commit to too many things, they become miserable experiences.

If you want to live a miserable life, making your life all about other people is the way to do it.

You've got to allow yourself the things you enjoy or you'll just be miserable.

I don't need to be super-ripped all year round. That's a pretty miserable way to live your life.

I think when you are older, you should be slowing down, but I wouldn't like not to work as I would get rather miserable.

You are going to lead a miserable life if you only do it for the money. You are never going to be happy.