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Quotes About Balance

Mothers have to pretend to be perfect[.] If we didn't, anarchy would rule the world. But most of the time we're just doing the best we can and trying to get better at it everyday
~ Donna Ball
It's essential to learn to recognize, respect, and meet your own needs, for if you don't take care of them, you wind up feeling needy and unfulfilled. As the sense of deprivation builds up, you may find yourself struggling with your weight.
~ Donna Cunningham
Shaucha, or living purely, involves maintaining a cleanliness in body, mind, and environment so that we can experience ourselves at a higher resolution.
~ Donna Farhi
Yoga postures, were traditionally practiced very slowly, with each movement synchronized to the breath, in order to balance the nervous system and open a perceptual gateway to the parasympathetic nervous system. This makes us available to our feeling function.
~ Donna Farhi
the purpose of Yoga, which is to realize a unitive state, concentrated asana practice, the third limb of Ashtanga Yoga, will naturally involve each of the other seven limbs of practice, especially the ten ethical precepts of the yamas and niyamas (the first two limbs).
~ Donna Farhi
we are practicing to live, not living to practice,
~ Donna Farhi
time acts as an invisible mortar for our experience; it is what stands between potentially discordant elements and, through finding their correct relationship, brings all into a unified whole.
~ Donna Farhi
Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.
~ Donna Karan
It is easier to read about life than to live it, Even so young I knew that. Even so young I needed a rest from the living.
~ Donna M. Gershten
Honey, you can't bring a lover to work like he was a purse dog, otherwise Paul would never leave my side." Sydney
~ Donna McDonald
I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.
~ Donny Osmond
This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.
~ Donny Osmond
Weather meaning 'weather' and man meaning 'man.
~ Doreen Cronin
Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.
~ Doreen Valiente
An it harm none, do what ye will.
~ Doreen Valiente
female health issues stem from "denial of the self and rejecting femininity";
~ Doreen Virtue
nuestra mision es estar en paz con nosotros mismos.
~ Doreen Virtue
The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.
~ Doris Janzen Longacre
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
~ Doris Lessing
Don't let a suitcase filled with cheese be your big fork and spoon.
~ Doris Roberts
The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now another, in the ascendant.
~ Dorothea Brande
Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of the artist's side; and the converse of this proposition is likewise true. But it is possible to train both sides of the character to work in harmony, and the first step in that education is to consider that you must teach yourself not as though you were one person, but two.
~ Dorothea Brande
An alternative method is this: from time to time give yourself a day on which you say "Yes" to every request made of you which is at all reasonable. The more you tend to retire from society in your leisure, the more valuable this will be.
~ Dorothea Brande
she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant
~ Dorothy Allison