Quotes About Balance

Evil is always with us. The balance is all.

Balancing parenthood with the lifestyle of a professional climber is tricky and it certainly helps to have a supportive partner. For me it has been quite a juggling act to manage all the demands on my time in both my personal and public life. But like climbing itself, the most challenging experiences are usually the most satisfying. Motherhood is certainly more challenging than any climb I've done, but there's nothing greater than the sense of love I feel for my child.

Where Buddhist teachings contradict science, science should prevail,

People are always complaining that life's not fair, but that simply isn't true. Life is extraordinarily fair. It's just not centered on you.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You get nowhere standing up, so get up on that seat and go!

People though are rarely all good or all evil but often a mixture of both and we all make mistakes.

My dance on the pedestal was my friendship with Maureen. I wasn't sure how I had lost my balance and fallen off. Or whether I was pushed. Everyone around me was trying to get me to dance again. The thing was, I hadn't quite given up on getting back up there. I still believed it was the only place where I could be happy.

Lynne Reid Banks

I know what is wrong. You havn't decided what you want.' She'd underlined this many times. 'Terribly important to draw up a balance sheet every now and then, debits and credits. Decide what's important, what's worth fighting for. Don't drift, ever. Decide then act. If you fail well at least you tried. Don't know what you want so can't advise you how to get it. ? Lynne Reid Banks, The L-Shaped Room

I know what is wrong. You haven't decided what you want. She'd underlined this many times. Terribly important to draw up a balance sheet every now and then, debits and credits. Decide what's important, what's worth fighting for. Don't drift, ever. Decide then act. If you fail well at least you tried. ? Lynne Reid Banks, The L-Shaped Room

No man, even if he is sixty yrs of age ought to live more than three months at a time from his family...

I'm not equipped to handle what she has, both good and bad and what she has is always a package deal of both. In other words, I've been assigned a load I can handle.

Like a tree, a woman can't carry the weight of two seasons simultaneously. In the violent struggle of trying, she'll miss every bit of joy each season promises to bring.

My attitude of love must not be sacrificed on the altar of activity.

Where there is a lack of rest, there is an abundance of stress.

Don't allow the unrealistic demands of others to march freely into your life.

The decisions you make determine the schedule you keep. The schedule you keep determines the life you live. And how you live your life determines

remember the decisions you make determine the schedule you keep. The schedule you keep determines the life you live. And how you live your life determines how you spend your soul.

While my heart wants to say yes, the reality of my time makes this a no." I've learned the best "no" answers are graciously honest.

My attitude of love must be fiercely guarded when considering adding activities. My attitude of love must not be sacrificed on the altar of activity..... mt attitude of love must trump my activity every time.

Unrealistic expectations are things the other person isn't able or willing to do for me. I have to let go of these.

Relationships were reduced to attempts at managing what I feared about them rather than enjoying what I loved about them.

Overindulgence is overindulgence. And limitless indulgence in food always has consequences—it compromises our health, dimmishes energy to pursue our calling, and affects the way we feel about ourselves

We hyper-focus on the lines of Scripture containing the miracles, and we miss the details of the mess.