Quotes About Balance

One of the fundamental truths of psychiatry was that sometimes you had to leave a patient who needed you. She

I'll think about staying if you'll think about leaving.

The key to life in this dry heat was conservation of everything: water, food, emotion. That last one was the biggest challenge.

night rather than to gobble it all up at once. And

You are an inspiration, Teresa, in so many ways. Somehow you balance it all—being a soldier, a Black Hawk helicopter pilot, a wife, and a mother—and you do it with grace and courage. You are truly an example of everything that is right with our country.

But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular, powerful you? No one ever talked about that.

My life. It's enough.

you care too much about everyone else. What do you want?

Ea e sufletul meu; cea care ma lasa sa zbor si ma tine cu picioarele pe pamant.

It was the holiday season, the time of year that turned women into card-carrying split personalities.

The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line.

The trick was to keep your balance. You couldn't control the direction of your family any more than you

The universe is always in balance, she said - summer and winter, day and night, sustenance and poison, good and evil. To know the light, you must also know the darkness.

But the forest knew no difference when it came to race, religion, or gender; it smiled and frowned upon all of them in equal measure, sometimes providing protection, sometimes peril. "By the grace of God, may we all be vanishing stars.

France may have turned her back. But did that mean that Eva could do the same when lives hung in the balance?

must honor the past without turning our backs on the future.

First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.

Farming, I discovered, is a great and ongoing war. The farmers are continually fighting to keep nature behind the hedgerow, and nature is continually fighting to overtake the field.

I have never met a woman who works who doesn't feel guilty. I mean we all deny it like crazy but deep down there is always that voice saying you should be at home.

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

When something goes 'wrong,' it is not the outer event that ought to be changed, but our inner state which responds to it. If we can build inner balance, we will no longer be blown over by the slightest gust, whether 'good' or 'bad'.

Making your partner first on your "to do" list, and not last, will help you keep your priorities in line and will also be the salvation of your loving connection.

Conscious parenting is really about self-awareness; the more self-aware you are, the better you can set your family's conditions and boundaries.

I'm having a great time. I get to travel and see the world. And yeah, I'll have a family, because I don't want to miss out on that amazing experience, but it's not defining who I am.