Quotes About Balance

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Do not forget duty. But choose love when you can.

Maybe the hardest lesson Han had learned was that nobody is purely bad or good. Everybody seemed to be a mixture of both.

I've found it wise to enjoy any time of truce, while recognizing it for what it is. A truce.

Maybe the hardest lesson Han had learned was that nobody is purely bad or good. Everybody seemed to be a mixure of both.

Tal vez la lección más dura que Han había aprendido era que nadie es totalmente bueno o malo. Todo el mundo es una mezcla de ambas cosas.

Take charge of the horse you're riding before you try to rein in someone else's, Elena Demonai always said. And make sure you have a good seat before you do.

Aku tidak mempunyai sesuatu yang banyak, tetapi juga tidak membutuhkan yang banyak.

But I try to steal other moments. Sometimes I get up very early in the morning and enjoy a quiet house and cup of tea before the craziness begins. Other times, I'll take a quick walk on the beach. You can find peace in a few minutes.

It's important for moms to have alone time. However, that's the first thing that goes on a busy day. Fortunately for me, because of my job, I have to find the time to do it. At least that's the way my mind sees it.

I am only certain of one thing. If we are the sum total of our relationships, my balance sheet is bleeding red ink.

In that hurry to achieve, I've left little time for self-reflection. And I'm not sure I'm ready for it.

Honey, anything can be hard - having a husband gone all the time, or underfoot all the time, or no husband, or … whatever. The answer is to build a life around those things.

It took work to keep the mind, the heart, and emotions clean and orderly.

most relationship issues are solved with one thing: setting boundaries. See the problem for what it is, set a boundary, and follow through despite how hard the person tries to break the boundary and how much it hurts to hold fast.

Seems to me that most relationship issues are solved with one thing: setting boundaries. See the problem for what it is, set a boundary, and follow through despite how hard the person tries to break the boundary and how much it hurts to hold fast.

I figure that the degree of difficulty in combining two lives ranks somewhere between rerouting a hurricane and finding a parking place in downtown Manhattan.

In surfing, and maybe even in life, the trick is to use the calm between the waves to position yourself for the next one.

I think turning fifty means you want to keep everything you already have, but you also want everything you haven't managed to get yet, too. Before it's too late.

I was ungrateful to Providence by not being happy; and, yet, does happiness always result from the gifts of intelligence? I tend to believe the contrary: one must pay for the gift of knowledge by wishing not to know...

If he had a wife, he'd have warmth in his bed, to be sure. But if he had a wife, he'd have a wealth of other problems. Like having a wife.

There are lots of ways to lose yourself—motherhood's just one of them.

What it is to be a man,' she said, 'and to have days off.

I was aware of doing only a so-so job on the grown-up career front, but I didn't really care, because there were two big exam questions I wanted to be sure I answered fully: the question of art, and the question of love.