Quotes About Balance

What parts of this life are you willing to give up, so you can keep on living?

Are humans spiritual beings who transcend this planet? Or just fuck-ups trashing the earth?

life are you willing to give up, so you can keep on living? Most who face this dilemma will

I love what I do and I think it shows. As my kids get older, they can see me as a mom who loves working.

When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

Music will always be my No. 1 passion, but I don't have to be doing it professionally. It's not really about that for me anymore. I feel like I don't have to look at it as a career. I can just rest in it and just be.

I can talk to my dad like he's my manager, and put 'Dad' on the back burner. We've been doing it since I was 13.

I want to be as healthy as I can because I'm a mom now.

Weight Watchers is not intimidating. It's not a diet. It's a lifestyle.

If a tortured artist hurls a nasty email at 10 p.m. and then a love song at 11:20, are you up or down?

While falling in love is fun, it's not everything, and it's not the antidote to an unfulfilled life, despite what Reese Witherspoon movies may tell you.

So as lovely as romance can be, we have to make sure that we're not falling into the trap of making our entire life about searching for an unrealistic notion of happiness. While falling in love is fun, it's not everything, and it's not the antidote to an unfulfilled life, despite what Reese Witherspoon movies may tell you.

Whether you're wearing your baby or not, whether you're using cloth diapers or teaching your four-week-old to use the toilet: it's still women who are doing the bulk of child care, no matter what the parenting philosophy

Sometimes I wonder if, instead of falling madly in love, we should aspire to fall sanely in love. But then, what would be the point?

Greasy food might not be good for your body, but it does wonders for the soul. A healthy diet may prolong your life, but what would you have to live for? What is the point of living to a hundred if you have to subsist on bland food? One may as well die of boredom.

While being madly in love is fun, perhaps one should aspire to be sanely in love.

it may rain or it may shine, probably at the same time. (Lamentations 5:23)

Man can only go forward by developing his reason, by finding a new harmony, a human one, instead of the prehuman harmony which is irretrievably lost. When

El hombre no domina la naturaleza, sino que, fundándose sobre el conocimiento de unas cuantas leyes y secretos naturales, se ha erigido en la posición de dueño de aquellos otros seres que carecen de tal conocimiento.

Obsessional work alone would drive people just as crazy as would complete laziness

Gravity is the root of lightness; stillness the ruler of movement." (Mueller, op. cit., p. 69.)