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Quotes About Balance

Rest, yes. Sleep, no," I answered.
~ Janette Oke
Love cannot long survive without truth. Nor is truth really truth unless it is integrated with love.
~ Michael O'Brien
Unlike the traditional athlete, I've got to do more than just engage in my sport to put food on the table. When I'm done running, it's straight to the office.
~ Dean Karnazes
Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.
~ Amelie Mauresmo
Unlike your fish tank, in nature, fish eat each other. When the population of a species gets too low, it will die out.
~ Mark Kurlansky
I do binge once a week. Otherwise, I keep strict control over my diet. Unlike others, I don't stop eating once I start.
~ Suniel Shetty
We are unlikely to spend our last moments regretting that we didn't spend enough of our lives chained to a desk. We may instead find ourselves rueing the time we didn't spend watching our children grow, or with our loved ones, or travelling, or on the cultural or leisure pursuits that bring us happiness.
~ Owen Jones
I support an equal playing field for plaintiffs and defendants - and the way to get that equal playing field is not by having unlimited discovery.
~ Amul Thapar
I believe that schools of today with all their answers on science, technology, engineering and mathematics, above everything else, take us back to the industrial revolution in time, when people thought that nature could be conquered and consumption or production could be unlimited.
~ Sonam Wangchuk
Being a ballerina can be a very unnatural life, especially after you've had children.
~ Darcey Bussell
Nobody can make a putt that breaks to the right. It's unnatural. Unless you're left-handed, of course. Standing over a putt that breaks to the right can actually make you dizzy. I've long thought that right-breaking putts are a major contributor to mental and physical ill health.
~ Dan Jenkins
I always seem to find myself fighting the law of equilibrium - the great leveling force that brings things to the mean and takes the 'cartoonishness' out of life. Perhaps I am doing a very unnatural thing... If Einstein were still alive I would ask him about it.
~ Jane Siberry
There's nothing unnatural in creation.
~ Wadada Leo Smith
Because of technology today, we expect kids to stay in touch with us too much. I think that's unnatural. We really do have to give kids their freedom and allow them to go off and become adults.
~ Andie MacDowell
I've had work done on my eyes in the past. However, I think there are limits. I wouldn't ever have too much done, as it looks unnatural, and I don't think you should do anything to your lips, as it changes the entire shape of your face.
~ Carolina Herrera
I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.
~ Alice Walker
We are made up of multiple emotions. And it would be unnatural to completely eliminate even one or two or three of those. It's impossible. You'd become a robot if the emotions weren't there.
~ Phyllis Smith
I've learned, I think, to be able to distinguish between the necessary and the unnecessary as far as my limited outside time is concerned. Saying 'no' politely is a necessity if one wants to lead any kind of stable life.
~ Richard Chamberlain
Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.
~ Richard Baxter
And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.
~ Erykah Badu
I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.
~ Sean Bean
Sometimes I'm very impatient. I also feel the need to please everyone, which is unnecessary and impossible.
~ Steve Nash
Women should learn from men to compartmentalize. It's a great skill that some women have naturally but others have to practice. The goal is to keep one area of your life that might not be going well from causing unnecessary disruptions in another area.
~ Karen Finerman
I know I've been lucky, but I'm not very materialistic - I don't believe in collecting many unnecessary things and I'm not into girlie shopping.
~ Katie Melua