Quotes About Balance

I thought you were a lawyer, I said, spreading peanut butter. I'm a human first, then a lawyer. It's possible to be both...

lawyers, they valued their time. As investigators, they had learned patience. The two roles were often in conflict.

Don't waste a second but never hurry.

I'm a human first, then a lawyer. It's possible to be both—not quite so much on the spread there. We have to be efficient.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other

As Knox had proclaimed, Elizabeth ruled from the head and Mary from the heart

positioning her chin carefully with her hands and holding them there

Whatever humanity does, it should be directed toward bringing order out of non-order. Our use of the environment should not impose disorder. This is not just a house that we inhabit; it is our divinely gifted home, and we are accountable for our use of it and work in it.

Perhaps I'd be happier if I had a boring job like Filly, but then I wouldn't have any time to myself. I waste so much time and then I resent it when I don't have time to waste.

You're not too much trouble. You're just the right amount of trouble.

The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.

At that age, it feels as good to feel bad as it does to feel good.

Components of a Healthy Diet

Life is serious but art is fun!

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar.

R?pinkit?s savo gyvenimu, - pasak? Zajoncas Harvardo studentams. - Jeigu jau tiek pasiek?te, j?s? profesiniai reikalai tur?t? susitvarkyti savaime.

for a brief phase, you were expected to absorb love (and get enough), and then, for a much longer and more serious phase, you were expected to fulfill certain obligations. When

for a brief phase, you were expected to absorb love (and get enough), and then, for a much longer and more serious phase, you were expected to fulfill certain obligations

Between men and women," as Jenny Fields once said, "only death is shared equally.

HOW CAN YOU BE HAPPY IF YOU SPEND ALL YOUR TIME THINKING ABOUT DOING IT?" Owen asked.

John Irving (Author)

Exercise was the rent the body charged for granting the mind space.

One thing you learn as you get older: the secret to a happy work life is finding a desk chair you can live with.