Quotes About Balance

Rather, he found himself inhabiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.

Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. The smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

Sometimes," she said, "what we want to do and what we must do are not the same." She put a hand on his shoulder. "Pasqo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

how much easier life would be if our intentions and our desires could always be aligned.

It's another mystery of parenting: how you can love your kids without always liking them.

Pasqo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same.

Parenthood makes such sweet hypocrites of us all.

He found himself inhabiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.

First and foremost, I think we must remain calm as parents and try not to lose control of ourselves. For how can we expect our kids to control themselves if we can't do it? That seems unfair.

the less energy people expend on performance, the more they expend on appearances to compensate.

Finn is God: If you get off your high horse, you'll notice that it, too, poops.

Finn Is God More disruptive than living in my house? You're clearly unbalanced.

Everything is violently perfect! Why would you ask? Violently perfect? That's an odd word choice...

There is so much gray between the black and the white and this is where most of us live, trying, but so often failing, to bend towards the light.

The look I was going for was sexy but saved. Come hither but leave room for the Lord.

How can I be my best if I never fail, and how can I ever find peace if I never yell.

You, who chafed at the collective we created, who only wanted to subtract yourself, always, from the equation, throwing it off-balance.

a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated.

A life of complete leisure is the hardest work of all.

You don't have a work brain and a home brain. You have a single brain, one you carry with you wherever you go. Whatever affects you in one place is fully capable of affecting you at the other.

The only break I ever took was to eat. That's all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my main pleasure, having access to my comfort food.

Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places.

Work first, and then rest.