Quotes About Balance

Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys.

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.

Then it crosses my mind, 'But I'm a very busy woman! I don't have time for a stroke!'

Peacefulness should be the place we begin rather than the place we try to achieve.

For many of us, once we have made a decision, then we are attached to that decision forever. I have found that often the last thing a really dominating left hemisphere wants is to share its limited cranial space with an open-minded right counterpart!

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

My ex-wife did once accuse me of treating my own needs as if they were instructions and everyone else's needs as impediments.

All the top sellers I know possess a unique balance of positivity and negativity. They're always optimistic about the ultimate outcomes, but they sometimes seem paranoid about everything that could possibly go wrong. That's why they succeed.

We may lose the sense of totality almost at once, but the psyche and body have experienced what wholeness is. They can then reconnect to that still point as to a tuning fork.

Where consciousness and the unconscious intersect at the still point, that is where we are whole.

Margin is having the pace and space in your day to allow real life to happen. Too many of us run at a pace that is not only unhealthy physically but damaging relationally. We go-go-go, telling ourselves there are just not enough hours in the day, when we really need to be slowing down and enjoying the journey just as much as we anticipate enjoying the destination when we arrive.

Don't take life too seriously. After all none of us are getting out alive anyway.

Karma was a bitch with a good sense of humor.

Accept that some days you're the bug, and some days you're going to be the windshield.

People are living too much or too little, and I wondered if anyone out there is living the right amount.

Opposing ideas can be simultaneously true; one reinforces the other even as they're both canceled out.

Having no choices, no agency, was a killer, but having too many was equally crippling.

It's impossible to put yourself first when you're a mom.

Selfish isn't a dirty word. It means we take care of ourselves and are able to give back.

Love makes the world go 'round but I'm pretty sure money has to do with it, too.

it is impossible to effectively parent from the driver's seat of a minivan.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.