Quotes About Balance

Creating breathing room financially may lower your standard of living but raise your quality of life.

Life isn't about constantly trying to scale peak after peak, it's about living at a high plateau & thriving

Living simply means concentrating on what's important in light of eternity. And not taking the rest of life too seriously.

My parents were of the opinion, because they had started skating very young, that you should have something that you do that you care about, because it structures your life as you're growing up.

Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.

Tis by no means the least of life's rules: To let things alone.

The secret of the truly successful ... is that they learned early in life how not to be busy.

You can't understand light unless you understand darkness, because that's where life is most often lived - somewhere between the two. It's messy and it's beautiful all at the same time.

Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.

Keeping the daily demands of life in balance is one of the great tasks of mortality. There is no peace for those whose lives are out of balance temporally or spiritually.

I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.

Life is crazy and meaningful at once.

My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.

My whole life has been a twenty years struggle between poetry and prose, or, if you like to call it so, Music and Law.

I feel that it's important to fail now and again. For instance, if I go for a job and I don't get it, that makes me not a better person, but more balanced, more aware of what life is really like.

To be on the wire is life. The rest is waiting.

Everything in moderation, and there's a perfect balance in this life if we can find it.

I think Shambhala can be a very strong force as a social example of how you can try to live a life balanced in terms of both the spiritual and the secular.

in the past, having a life while earning a living didn't seem like too much to ask. Today, even this basic goal has been redefined as 'having it all.

If your child is more important than your vision of your child, life becomes easier.

Art is order, made out of the chaos of life.

Life is too short no matter what party you are with.

Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.

One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.