Quotes About Balance

As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.

Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.

Life is too important to be taken as a joke, but too ridiculous to be taken seriously.

Our first half is about how to make a living, and our second half has the promise of being about how to make a life.

The real goal of Zen is to find a way of life that's easy and undramatic. Strong attachments lead to upset and drama.

The day should come when all of the forms of life... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote and bear, the lemmings as well as the trout in the streams.

Plain living and high thinking are no more.

I always strive to keep a balance with my fears. I don't like to be ruled by them. At the same time, I don't like the idea of living my life totally free of any fears. I like having that moderation.

Clear perception is the cornerstone and an absolute necessity for living your best life - and that's exactly what the focus of a yoga practice should be all about.

Learning to earn a living is only half the job. The other half is to make life worthwhile and meaningful.

Everything that is contradictory creates life

Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.

Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem.

Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.

Life can very genuinely and realistically pile things on. It doesn't dole out the heartache and pain, or joy, perfectly.

Each life needs its own quiet place.

Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain order, but by itself cannot create a new order in consciousness.

I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.

what's life without a spice of stupidity

Football is important, but it is never more important than life.

Finding one important thing in your life doesn't mean you have to give up all the other important things.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.

Make life your playground, not your battlefield.

Some 80% of your life is spent working. You want to have fun at home; why shouldn't you have fun at work?