Quotes About Balance

When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.

He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as if with his bare will. He kept himself upright on a very narrow line between madness and emptiness and when the time came for him to lose his balance he intended to lurch toward emptiness and fall on the side of his choice.

In the first place you can be so absolutely honest and so absolutely wrong at the same time that I think it is better to be a combination of cautious and polite

Virtue must be the only vigorous thing in our lives. Sin is large and stale. You can never finish easting it nor ever digest it. It has to be vomited.

Jesus thrown everything off balance.

Art requires a delicate adjustment of the outer and inner worlds in such a way that, without changing their nature, they can be seen through each other.

Unfortunately, to try to disconnect faith from vision is to do violence to the whole personality, and the whole personality participates in the act of writing. The tensions of being a Catholic novelist are probably never balanced for the writer until the Church becomes so much a part of his personality that he can forget about her—in the same sense that when he writes, he forgets about himself.

Freedom is of no use without taste and without the ordinary competence to follow the particular laws of what we have been given to do.

Mrs. Pritchard could not stand an anticlimax. She required the taste of blood from time to time to keep her equilibrium.

they were all, if the truth was only known, a little bit off in their heads. What possible reason could a sane person have for wanting to not enjoy himself any more?

Les hommes trouveront toujours que la chose la plus sérieuse de leur existence, c'est jouir.

Son spiritualisme (Mme Dambreuse croyait à la transmigration des âmes dans les étoiles) ne l'empêchait pas de tenir sa caisse admirablement. (L'Éducation sentimentale).

The two together are a really great combo: the family life and then being able to go play some shows and write.

I'd been doing shows, but I slowed down because I had a daughter and got to spend some time having more of a family life.

Fighting is fighting. Family life is family life. I need a distinct barrier between the two. Obviously, my family dictate how I'm feeling and my head space. But work's work.

Although I have a busy work schedule, I make sure I spend time with my family and create a balance between my work and family life.

I have always managed to combine my family life and my career, but there came a point when I had to choose between a career in America and my family. I chose my family.

When you have children, you don't have downtime, but I have a family life that is rich and fulfiling.

I don't know anyone that says, 'Boy, I had a great career, and I'm happy because I screwed up my life outside of my career, my family life.' There's no one that feels that way.

I separate my family life from fighting.

I'm doing less than I used to because I'm a family man now, and I have two kids.

I see myself as a family man.

I'm a family man now. I don't need no distractions; I don't need no big cities, no big lights, at this point in my career.

I'm a family man. I like being home.