Quotes About Balance

Oh, woe to the woman who sticks her nose in a book and forgets that real life is not always destined for Happily Ever After.

Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some meaning in all that happens – these things, too, are the works of peace.

A philosophy of work is essential if we would be whole men, holy men, healthy men, joyous men. A certain amount of goods is necessary for a man to lead a good life, and we have to make that kind of society where it is easier for men to be good.

My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.

Putting everything on hold to achieve the one thing you think will make you happy will actually mean that you're miserable along the way to getting there, and when you get there, you might find that the thing wanted doesn't make you as happy as you thought it would. Or worse, you've completely forgotten how to be happy.

Preciso desta calma, preciso do nada no caos de tudo.

Às vezes, acho que a vida não passa de uma balança de pratos, um sistema de pesos e contrapesos: sempre que me acontece alguma coisa boa, algo horrível há de seguir-se para equilibrar os pratos e impedir-me de ser completa e absolutamente feliz.

What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant --- and let the air out of their tires.

Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

You might also want to do some thinking about how much time you need to get your needs met: do you really have to stay over and have breakfast together the next day, or would an hour or two of cuddling and talk be just as nice?

If you have a lover and a best friend who are not the same person, you're already practicing many of the skills of sluthood as you manage each of their needs for intimacy, time, and affection.

In fact, what we do in S/M is that we act as though we were giving up or taking real-world power, while retaining the ability to keep as much power as we need to feel safe, or to take no more than we feel OK about having.

When you respect your limits, other will learn to respect them too.

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too.

busyness is usually a sign of brokenness.

The chase causes you to be overcommitted and under-connected. Something has to change, or your marriage will suffer the consequences.

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.

No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.