Quotes on Life Balance

I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

Do not get so concerned with making a living that you forget to make a life.

Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.

Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them.

Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

... consciousness is an ever-unfolding, deepening, and expanding process with no end point. We are infinite and complex beings, and our human journey involves not just a spiritual awakening, but the development of all levels of our being - spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical - and the integration of all these aspects into a healthy and balanced daily life.

In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

Framing the issue of work-life balance - as if the two were dramatically opposed - practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life?

So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.

Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls - family, health, friends, integrity - are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

Life is balance of holding on and letting go.