Quotes About Balance

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one.

The enemy of the "best" is often the "good."

Everyone is dealing with something. This is life; this is not just a piece of cake. You expect that when your teammates are doing their jobs, so you got to compartmentalize and do your job.

Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there's less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what's the fun in eating anything you want to?

For every laugh, there should be a tear.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Life teaches you that you need to make decisions in the right time - not too early, not too late.

The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.

There's more to life than movies.

Technology is notorious for engrossing people so much that they don't always focus on balance and enjoy life at the same time.

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.

If you hold a bird too tightly, you'll crush its wings

All is pattern, all life, but we can't always see the pattern when we're part of it.

To never forget that the most important thing in life is the quality of life we lead.

For me, now, working and children is it. Theres nothing more to life.

I want to run for eternal glory and track is great, but it's not what life is all about.

I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.

A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life.

When a person finds life hard, he needs motivation and inspiration; but if he finds life's journey easy, then he needs meditation and introspection to know the true quality of his life.

Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.

Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.

Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I'm away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.