#balance

A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work. ↗

— Imelda Staunton

#admit #balance #both #enriches #i

The Internet doesn’t love you or need you – but your family does. ↗

— James Chartrand

#life-balance #family

If you think too much heaven within your mind, you may have no time for simple things in this life. ↗

— Toba Beta

#harmony #life

The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness. Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught. But what about the benefits of living harmoniously among extremes? What if you could somehow create an expansive enough life that you could synchronize seemingly incongruous opposites into a worldview that excludes nothing? ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#life #life-lessons #life

As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy. Cuts had to be made and some initiatives deferred. Occasionally I had to say 'no.' ↗

— Evan Bayh

#balanced #budgets #cuts #deferred #easy

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#between #conceit #delicate #delicate balance #modesty

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#challenge #faced #man #modern #modern man

Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism. ↗

— Cory Booker

#asked #balanced #being #calls #class

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#character #faith #foundation #honesty #integrity

How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things. ↗

— Elaine Scarry

#beauty #world #beauty