Quotes About Balance

It is neither possible nor desirable to be always attuned and responsive to the moods and wishes of children.

You can't live and write at the same time.

Why have I spent so many hours of my life--very possibly as many as are actually recommended-- exercising ?!

Even a leaf in the wind settles sometimes.

Although, by todays standards, he set a vast amount of work, he believed as he told Mrs Ashley, that 'If you pour much drink into a goblet, the most part will dash out and run over'. In Ascham's view, it was the carrot, and not the stick, that worked.

As the wise Cicero said, "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Warren had to decide whether to fight for his choice, and once he did, find a way to preserve his relationship while getting the desired result.

If you haven't got your health you haven't got anything' but it's true. I used to think that physical fitness fanatics were a pain. I used to claim that there was more to life than feeling fit: like booze and smokes.

W]e have far too much faith in pills, far too little trust in resilience, time, and homeostasis.

It is equally dangerous at either extreme - to have either an expanding concept of mental disorder that eliminates normal or to have an expanding concept of normal that eliminates mental disorder.

Trees hang their branches

Forget pleasure and Ambition

Heaven balanced on a grassblade

Even the moon gets to put its feet up once a month. Man in the Moon, of course. If it was a Woman in the Moon, she'd never sit down. Well, would she? I

I still remember the little boy who shouted with astonished joy when I told him I was leaving my job at EMF. Are you going to be a Real Mummy now? he asked. Had I not been a real mummy to him while I worked?

Can you be a success as a mother? People only notice when you're not doing it right.

We've realized something about ourselves too: we are just as tempted by the propensity to make everyone feel happy as we are by booze.

make your children unhappy so they can face the world, but then, what is a world without children's laughter?

War: A by-product of the arts of peace.

Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.

Poverty and zeal are an upper and a nether millstone.  It is dangerous to make a third in that kind of sandwich.

En tiempo de paz prepara la guerra" tiene un significado más profundo de lo que parece; quiere decir, no sólo que todas las cosas terrestres tienen un fin, que el cambio es la única ley inmutable y eterna, sino que el terreno de la paz está sembrado con las semillas de la guerra y favorece su germinación y crecimiento.

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

We return to the void we never left, for Mehay is the center of all, and all is the center of nothing.