Quotes About Balance

Yes, it's simple, really. If you're riding a bicycle and you don't want to fall off, you have to keep going - fast.

The point (I was starting to realize) was about putting it together. The point was making people feel at home, about finding your own style, whatever it was, and committing to it. The point was about giving up neurosis where food was concerned. The point was about finding a way that food fit into your life.

I think of myself as a healthy person with a strong sex drive, but it's never occurred to me to forgo meals.

Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live twenty more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Do you work as hard as you can, or do you slow down to smell the roses? And

Here are some questions I am constantly noodling over: Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live twenty more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Do you work as hard as you can, or do you slow down to smell the roses? And where do carbohydrates fit into all this?

So this is my moment to say what's been in my heart for years: it's time to put a halt to the egg-white omelette.

I know that the pendulum often has to swing a few degrees into the wrong direction before righting itself, but it does get wearing sometimes waiting for the center to catch hold.

Make your days count. Don't invest all your efforts in the future. You miss too much of the now.

You don't fix a man the way you do a fault in a pipe or a leak in a roof. You take him as he is, Mary Brenna, or you don't take him at all...adjustments can't be all made on one side, darling, else the balance goes off and what's being built just falls down.

Knowledge is a great gift, and the thirst to seek it even greater. Use what you know...Head and heart...You are not made to give greater weight to one than the other.

Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.

Why don't you put your ego down for a while, Justin. It must be getting heavy.

Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don't ignore the present when you take them out to play.

Things have a way of falling into place.

Some prefer the wildness. Some the calm. There's enough of both in the world for everyone to have their choice. And enough time for any to change their mind.

Where there is a great deal of light, the shadows are deeper.

People [are] as much a source of entertainment as they [are] a source of irritation. it keep[s] things balanced.

There could be pockets of normal even in the middle of the awful.

Two of the top rules—Try Not to Hurt Anybody, and Have the Balls to Say What You Think—often clashed, but the results blended with her Be An Asshole When Necessary rule, so it worked for her.

If I can make you unhappy, then I can make you happy as well.

A marriage is a delicate thing, Maggie, a balance of two hearts and two hopes. Sometimes the weight's just too heavy on the one side, and the other can't lift to it.

The second surprise came on the heels of the first when she noted the only thing keeping her from rolling off the bed was the arm that Shawn had banded around her. He'd sprawled himself in the middle of the mattress, shoving her to the outer edge. But, she thought, at least he was considerate enough to see that she stayed there and didn't fall on her face.

Knowledge, and truth, save us from chaos.

I move at a pace that suits me.