Quotes About Balance

The way that we live with potentially dangerous animals is not to kill them, but to understand them and to coexist with them.

I am simply not interested in the pots and pans affair, and neither can I bring myself to be interested in the same. I have such great cooks in the family that I would rather manage the other affairs and leave the kitchen to those who know it best.

I believe when you have your hands on four or five pots at once, you can never have a firm grip on one pot. My one pot is being a boxer.

I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.

If you maintain a healthy diet, or at least are smart about your food choices, you'll still see the pounds come off.

I believe in nonfat. I gain two pounds when I eat a lamb chop.

I'll immediately gain, like, 5 pounds even just by thinking about cutting out dessert. It's a nightmare. I decided, for me, the healthiest thing was to eat what I want and just exercise. Some women can watch what they eat, but I just can't do that.

I gained about 60 pounds when I was preggers with Lil Hank, and I'm desperately trying not to do the same with our daughter.

Our modern, deadline-a-day lifestyle overtaxes our adrenal glands, which end up overproducing cortisol, which in turn makes it nearly impossible to sleep and can put you at risk for a heart attack. Raised cortisol also boosts your insulin levels, which can cause you to pack on the pounds, especially around the midsection.

I could be 30 pounds heavier if I played football. But I play baseball, and I do Pilates.

Sometimes, life just gets in the way, and you have to forgive yourself for putting on a few pounds.

I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.

Could you physically lose 10 pounds in 2 weeks? Maybe. But there's no way you could do that in a healthy way or that you could maintain it.

You can have X amount of pounds in your bank every month, but if you're not happy, and you're not finding peace in what you're doing, it doesn't really matter.

There is no point working off pounds with exercise, if you are going to eat them back on again.

Let's say you have white milk and chocolate milk, and one of them is good emotions and one of them is bad emotions, and you pour both in: you're still going to fill up and run over.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Love is more powerful than kicking ass.

Humans are extremely good in acquiring new power, but they are not very good in translating this power into greater happiness, which is why we are far more powerful than ever before but we don't seem to be much happier.

That's what people forget about, is that when things are very, very powerful in a sad way, they have that possibility of also being over-the-top, hysterically funny.

The courts have become grotesquely dictatorial and far too powerful.

Maybe I am conservative, but I like to have a little fun, too.