Quotes About Balance

It will be a compromise, but that's what the marriage often is

Victoria Houston

I think it's really cool how J. Lo's been able to balance an acting career and a music career. That's something I strive for.

Someone once told me that something they really liked about me was that they thought that I was really down to earth and not high-maintenance. I think that was cool. It's important to stay grounded.

If you are working on a short story for a small online press, don't try to write a serious, world-changing, add-this-to-the-literary-canon masterpiece. Do your best work, but keep it all in perspective. Save the stress for when it is really called for, like facing a two-week deadline to rewrite a novel for a major house.

I realized I could only play-act at the spiritual life as long as my appetites were stronger than my empathy.

We must always remember that justice is not just about punishment. It is about healing, about reconciliation, and about restoring balance to our community. We must strive to find solutions that are fair and just, and that bring about a sense of harmony and peace to those who have been harmed (Kneubuhl 123)

Justice is not just about punishment. It is about healing, about reconciliation, and about restoring balance to our community. We must strive to find solutions that are fair and just, and that bring about a sense of harmony and peace to those who have been harmed(Kneubuhl 92)

I wish I could make the land bloom for you. But the land is not mine to give. It belongs to the earth and to the spirits that dwell within it. We are merely stewards, entrusted with the care of this sacred land, and it is our duty to ensure that it thrives for generations to come. That is why we must tread lightly, with humility and respect, and work together to restore the balance that has been lost. (Kneubuhl 35)

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look–that healthy equals beautiful.

Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.

A father is available to help his daughter balance both her love and her anger toward her mother, to moderate the inevitable emotional extremes in the intense mother-daughter equation. With Daddy's steadying influence daughters can learn to be comfortable with healthy anger, rather than feeling that they must be eternal good girls who must at all costs conceal it.

An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.

A person's strength was always his weakness, and vice versa.

One could choose between innocence and experience, but one could not have both.

A person's strength was always his weakness, and vice versa. The weakness was there to be seen if one could see it.

I am simply able to see any issue from both sides. Sometimes I flatter myself that this is a talent, and although it is admittedly one of a minor nature, it is perhaps also the sole talent I possess.

For some, life is about "being Cool" while for others its about "being Hot". While there is room for both, we must avoid "being Lukewarm".

Then what in your opinion is a good story?' 'What it's always been, monkey,' Ganesha said. 'One dhansu conflict. Some chaka-chak song and dance. Grief. Love. Love for the lover, love for the mother. Love for the land. Comedy. Terror. One tremendous villain whom we must love also. All the elements properly balanced and mixed together, item after item, like a perfect meal with a dance of tastes. There you have it.

Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Just be to yourself.

Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?

Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.

A tree that allows birds to nest in it should never complain about its shred leaves.