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Quotes About Balance

From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.
~ Joanne Harris
In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste.
~ John Steinbeck
I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.
~ John Travolta
Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.
~ Juliet Marillier
It's very good for us to say, as liberals, that we should be moved by everything, but the fact is that there's just so much competing for our attention.
~ Karan Mahajan
Good and evil are merely opposite sides of a coin. Get tossed in the air enough, it's easy to come down on the wrong side.
~ Karen Marie Moning
If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.
~ Katherine Heigl
Actually, if I don't eat healthy food I don't feel good. For me, I crave healthy food.
~ Kristin Cavallari
The Way is the source of all things, good people's treasure and bad people's refuge.
~ Laozi
Heaven's Way gives no favors. It always remains with good people.
~ Laozi
Good design is being able to put a $100,000 thing next to a $20 thing. If it looks right and it works then it works. It doesn't have to be expensive; it's all about the high meets low for me.
~ Lenny Kravitz
I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?
~ Liz Phair
To be good to yourself ... Sometimes it seems that takes a special talent all its own.
~ Lorna Landvik
I am not in the least given to any violent interest in womankind, however, such as has addled the country's brains of late. Give me a manandwoman world: 'tis good enough!
~ Louise Imogen Guiney
the excess of all good things is mischievous.
~ Lydia M. Child
Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Half is not enough protection, half is my fault and half is them just doing a good job. I know it's 150 percent, but I'm a little tired now.
~ Marc Bulger
Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.
~ Mark Twain
Good husbands make good wives.
~ Martha Finley
If you are 8 hours a day in a job you hate, you're not going to be a very good spouse; it can contribute to chemical dependency, financial mismanagement.
~ Max Lucado
It is a good success to take people from the city to the forests; but there is a much greater success: To bring the forest to the people, to the cities! To bring heaven to the hell!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely... Having a big family solves that problem.
~ Michael Chabon
Anything you do as a group is fraught with compromise... But everyone 's got to do that, right? It's part of being a good parent, or a good boyfriend, whatever.
~ Michael Stipe
Not everybody is going to run a marathon or do a triathlon. It's not necessary to do that to be in good health.
~ Michelle Obama