Quotes About Balance

Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.

When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.

It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Life's too mysterious to take too serious.

Life is on the wire. The rest is just waiting.

If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.

Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial.

My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.

The fundamental principle of true healing consists of a return to natural habits of living.

Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.

For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom.

It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more.

Something my life has taught me is not to see things in black and white. People are neither all good nor all bad.

But I wanted to figure out how to be a mom without having to figure out how to be a professional on top of it.

The successful parents I saw were able to redefine who they were and renegotiate their needs and roles as humans, parents, and partners.

We worked to find not a middle-ground, but a new ground that would support us both.

Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.

Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.