Quotes About Balance

Still point of the turning world.

That was the ideal: to remain dutiful to a preservationist ethos while not depriving yourself of modern creature comforts.

She didn't know if his perfectionism canceled out his loss of ambition, or if they were two sides of the same coin. When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep.

Acts like these—simple, humane, conscientious, forgiving—held life together.

Per essere felici bisogna trovare varietà nella ripetizione.

When two people always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

I feel like my takeaway from tonight is that it's okay to love shitty television, provided that you make an effort to appreciate other kinds of entertainment.

I bet if I spent less time with the television and more time pursuing activities that enhance my life and expand my knowledge, I won't freeze up in business or social situations.

Couple this discovery with the realization that my things shouldn't own me and that life's meant to be lived, not displayed on Pinterest, and my sense is I've finally achieved something close to balance. I feel excellent about actually having

My whole life I've harbored a resentment toward those who could ride no-handed. To this day, I can't even sit on an exercise bike without clinging to the handlebars with a serious G.I.-Joe- kung-fu grip. Every time I see someone on the road, all smug and well-balanced, using their cell phone and gesturing while they talk and ride, I secretly want to bash them with my car door. It's

Sometimes compromise tastes like caramel macchiato.

You know what else I haven't seen? Home stores. I've not passed the equivalent of Restoration Hardware or Crate and Barrel or Pottery Barn, so I get the feeling that no one's killing themselves working double shifts so they can consume stuff to make their homes Pinterest-perfect. Maybe the Roman message is to not let your stuff own you.

fear good things happening because I believe something bad is sure to follow. Yin and yang, as comedy can't exist without tragedy. In my universe, pleasure and pain are opposite sides of the pendulum.

The more we look at food as fuel and the more we take emotions out of eating, the more likely we are to moderate ourselves.

Antes de la iluminación, corta madera y carga agua. Después de la iluminación, corta madera y carga agua.

I just don't know which is worse, to say nothing or to say too much.

Can we go to work now? Because we're about a minute away from breaking out the ice cream and talking about our feelings, and I don't think we can come back from that.

Life is more than great sex and a nice car." "Well, yeah. But not a lot more.

Think before you eat, people: Food should be the life of you, not the death of you.

clearly he'd decided that his kid was more important than great sex, a decision Sophie applauded in the abstract but resented in the specific.

You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.

You have to take care of yourself, your body, your mind, take care of your soul—be your own keeper.

You have to be okay on your own before you can have a healthy relationship with another person.

Women had made progress - Jo only had to look as far as the television set to see it - but she wondered whether they would ever not try to have it all and do it all and do it all flawlessly. Would the day ever come when simply doing your best would be enough?