Quotes About Balance

She was almost sixty and she had not been to London, or Paris, or Rome, and there was no going there now. Yes, she was balanced, as she had gotten into the habit of congratulating herself for being. But, she saw, she was balanced on a very narrow perch.

I made some studies, and reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle, I found it too confining. It was just too needful; it expected me to be there for it all the time, and with all I have to do--I had to let something go.

He wishes to be far away, either at sea or on the shore. In between, he realizes, is the most difficult of all places to be.

I mean, then you hafta listen to all this "The mall? Again?" hassle and "Did you do your homework?" and "Your grades would be up where they could be if you spent as much time in math as you do in the mall, young lady." Ick.

Okay, take a deep breath, I told myself. Don't go all hormonal. Get the facts straight. Have a mental doughnut.

Ranger declined the butterscotch pudding, not wanting to disrupt the consistency of his blood sugar level. I had two puddings and coffee, choosing to keep my pancreas at peak performance. Use it or lose it is my philosophy.

With the exception of dessert, food is food.

Stephanie, I'm begging you. Eat some doughnuts. I can't keep going like this. - Morelli

And from where I was sitting his ass looked like little Bear's bed...not too hard, and not too soft, but just right.

Sounds to me like you're talkin' about the wrong things. Why don't you talk about other things? Like you could make a list of things you won't fight over and then you only talk about those things.

Sometimes when a plan is right, everything else, all the things you can't control, falls into place just the way it should.

I might be a stay-at-home mother someday, but I'll always be trying to fly off the garage roof. That's just who I am.

Shakespeare. "To do a great right, do a little wrong.

An orgasm is an orgasm, but getting there can leave you with a herniated disc if you aren't careful.

I crossed the room at a run, barreled through the door to take the stairs, and crashed into Ranger. We lost balance and rolled tangled together to the fourth-floor landing. We lay there for a moment, stunned and breathless. Ranger was flat on his back, and I was on top of him.

I owe you." "We could use a baby-sitter next Friday." "I don't owe you that much.

You can't give up your identity and your goals in the name of love, she thought. It placed too heavy a burden on the other person. Successful relationships found a balance. That was the hard part, finding the balance.

You're out of beer." "I had to choose between food and the shoes." "You made the right choice.

We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.

Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.

This is Zen, she said. No flaw, no moment's hesitation. A window onto grace.

It made me hopefully, like someday my life would make sense too, if I could just hold all the pieces together at the same time.

When I'd been with Kolya, I'd been the moon, and he was the sun: he could give me his warmth or withhold it, pursue me or forget me.

She shot Rose a look before turning to the hare. She seasoned it, set it in the jug with herbs, bacon, a blade of mace, an onion stuck with cloves, two wineglasses of port, a tablespoonful of currant jelly, and a covering of thin broth, and put it on the heat. Then she moved on to the orange cream. Being fastidious in culinary matters- why estimate and run the risk of being wrong, when you might measure and always be exact?- she took out her balance and weighted the sugar which Rose had ground.