Quotes About Balance

It is overwhelmingly women who will plug the gaps in care provision, sacrificing paid employment to look after family members.

Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

I try to be prudent with everything and fortunately I have enough to support me in a nice middle-class lifestyle, while I try to do other things.

I love to prune. I have a physical need to do things.

Rome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I'm there, it's like a holiday.

Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

I am very concerned about the environment and psychological health of this beautiful planet.

Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically.

I have really focused on mindfulness. That helps me make better choices both physically, psychologically, and emotionally.

I just love doing broader work - I always get asked to do fairly heavy-duty, intense dramas and interesting, psychologically intense characters. But you know, it's nice to make people laugh sometimes.

I have a coach, a physio and a psychologist.

One of my key realizations about happiness, and a point oddly under-emphasized by positive psychologists, given its emphasis in popular culture, is that outer order contributes to inner calm. More than it should.

At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one.

What took some time for me to figure out was how to have a life outside my career, to find a way to be inclusive rather than exclusive. It came only after years of psychotherapy and deep soul-searching.

Everybody in my band is married, pretty much, and have lives at home, and I don't want them to be away from their families so long that they just start to feel psychotic. You have to go home and stand around in your bathrobe doing your dishes to feel like a normal person sometimes.

But there's a difference between having artistic interests and being psychotic. That's more than a fine line of differentiation, and I do see that a bit too much.

Some people like going to the pub; I enjoy going to the gym.

I'd had to grow up pretty quickly, and going back to drama school gave me a chance to be with people my own age and do normal things, like going to a pub on a Friday night and just hanging out.

I don't drink at home. I don't go to the pub or clubs.

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

In general, I feel very happy with how I got to have time on my own at least a little bit outside of the public eye.

How I try to balance relationships and being in the public eye is not telling people my business. That's what makes it work for me.