Quotes About Balance

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Women can't have it all if that means doing it all.

Roots cannot exist without flowers, but no flower can exist without roots.

I am left without answers. There are only questions I must answer for myself. What is the balance between home and the road? Hearth and horizon? Between what is and what could be?

Looking at international economic life brings to mind the ancient image of the world riding on the back of a turtle—only in reality, the turtle is a woman. She inches along, laboring just beneath the level of economic visibility, often blaming herself for not being able to bear more weight. Occasionally, she retreats into her shell, as if withdrawal were the only form of rebellion. But only when she upsets its balance will the world roll off her back.

The simple right to reproductive freedom—to sexuality as an expression that is separable from reproduction—is basic to restoring women's power, the balance between women and men, and a balance between humans and nature.

I can go on the road—because I can come home. I come home—because I'm free to leave. Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other.

Je peux partir parce que j'ai une maison qui m'attend. Je peux rentrer parce que je suis libre de partir. C'est l'alternance qui donne toute sa saveur à chacun de ces modes de vies. C'est à la fois très ancien et très moderne. Nous avons besoin des deux.

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will you have time for the work?" "I'll make time," I promised. "The house will not always be so clean, the cooking may be a little hasty, and the whining children will sit on my lap and I'll sing to them while I work.

You're making yourself too important. Guilt comes from feeling we're at the center of the universe. We're not.

If your schedule is unmanageable and overwhelming, it's likely your priorities are in the wrong place.

People who don't know their purpose try to do too much—and that causes stress, fatigue and conflict. It's impossible to do everything people want you to do. You have just enough time to do God's will. If you can't get it all done, it means you're trying to do more than God intended for you to do.

God revealed that my view of my life and purpose was small compared to his. I had separated all the areas of my life and was destroying myself trying to keep everything balanced.

I'm learning that I don't have to prove myself. And despite my superwoman complex, which got me into all kinds of situations, I'm not able to do all things.

Not every task, volunteer position, responsibility at work, or job around the house is my responsibility.

The only reason to manage time wisely is so you can spend it on what matters most. That's not always work.

Overload is a condition of our hearts. It's the result of following our own to-do list rather than God's.

We'll never find peace when the demands on our time and energy exceed our capacity.

For me,the Bild-Dichtung[image-poem] is the ideal form,because the drawing process is constantly being interrupted or contrasted by the writing. And since I always have something to say when I am writing,the effort has a balancing effect. Drawing and writing are wonderful complements.

Right fights while wrong rests.

The art of life is being extremely serious about it and not caring about it at all, both at the same time.

The challenge of humanity is the choice of what works perfectly for them over what works fairly for them.

The world is neither fair nor unfair, the question is whether you are fair to yourself.