Quotes About Balance

How do you have to live, I wondered, to be in harmony with what you honestly think?

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

At the beginning of a cask and at the end take your fill; in the middle be sparing.

We have all the time in the world. We once complained about being over-scheduled; now we're thrilled to bits if there's something to jot down other than a doctor's appointment.

You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus...

My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way.

Show me a mother who says she is 100 percent gentle, 100 percent of the time, and I'll show you a mother in deep, deep denial, and probably passive-agressive to boot." - Lynn Siprelle

T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.

there is an art to being in a hurry but not showing it." 390

Our virtues make us; but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times.

There is a time to be silent. There is a time to talk for your life.

Some debts should never be tallied, he says. "I myself, I know what is owed me, but by God I know what I owe.

He who climbs higher than he should, falls lower than he would.

There is a time to stand on your dignity, but there is a time to abandon it in the interests of your safety.

It would have been quite in order to slap his face, but what a cliché, she thought, and besides she was off balance. She had always wanted to do it to someone, but would have preferred someone more robust; so, between one thing and another, the moment passed.

a head is heavier than you expect

I found an easier way to be.

There's always going to be both: -magic & disaster- and we get to decide what to put our focus on.

I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office.

In a way, the goal of all writing projects should be to "get the hell out." You don't simply want to finish; you want to finish as quickly and easily as possible (without undue stress or pressure, of course) so that you can move on to the next project—or, the rest of your life.

IF you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are only for yourself, what are you? If not now, when?

She reported that when she'd told her doctor she was losing it, he said that she'd likely had too much to begin with.