Quotes About Balance

My personal life absolutely goes down the drain when I start working; that's something that I'm incapable of doing.

Sleep is an essential part of life-but more important, sleep is a gift.

Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.

Oh sorry, I was taking life seriously.

Choose battles that you can win without losing your heart and your soul.

Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.

Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.

All creation is one. What we do to one, we do to the entire web of life.

For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge.

I believe many of us are overnourished on entertainment junk food and undernourished on the bread of life.

When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.

...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.

Don't take life too seriously! Learn to enjoy yourself and be grateful for all you have.

My creative life is a constant struggle to achieve a balance between letting things flow in and letting things flow out.

I'm working as hard as I can to get my life and my cash to run out at the same time. If I can just die after lunch Tuesday, everything would be perfect.

Life is made up of compromises.

Life is already too short to waste on speed.

Life's too short to wear high heels.

What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so calm and peaceful?

If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with your business.

Some people in LA are addicted. They have to be here. My personal life is stronger than my professional life, in terms of priorities.