Top 68 Quotes About Finding Balance
#1. Depression is a real demon in the woods for a lot of creative people, you know? It's part of what the documentary is trying to be about for me, finding balance, where the beauty that is attainable in the creative arts can be matched with the scratchy roughness of regular life.
Ethan Hawke
#2. Almost everyone who reaches a plateau where he or she is happy and comfortable says it's because of finding balance between work, relaxation, exercise, socialising and family - plus some alone time to do something contemplative, creative, or educational.
Neil Strauss
#3. I love finding balance. My favorite thing to do is action-driven, emotionally-charged scenes.
Geoff Johns
#4. I can't tell you how many life lessons I've learned through bowling. Time management, finding balance in life, how to lose, how to win, how to bowl as a team and deal with people. How to do something I love to do and inspire other people.
Diandra Asbaty
#5. I pride myself on finding balance. I love making music and I love raising my boys - I find time to make both a priority.
Sheryl Crow
#6. Life is not about how much money is spent trying to impress the opposite sex, it's about finding balance and respect.
Jes Fuhrmann
#7. I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.
Rachel Weisz
#8. Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.
Orson Scott Card
#9. Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.
Thomas Kinkade
#10. You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.
Burt Ward
#11. What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'
Marilyn Vos Savant
#12. Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.
Brandon Sanderson
#13. You should be loud enough to be heard, but not overshadow the soloist or the other members of the rhythm section. Finding this volume balance is critical for a good feeling in the band. Creating bass lines
Sher Music
#14. With two children of my own, I know what it means to balance the demands of family and career - and let's not even talk about finding a date for myself. Rabbi Shmuley keeps telling me he'll find me the perfect woman. My response is, 'As long as she's not a journalist'.
Michael Jackson
#15. Sometimes the way to do what you hope to do will be clear cut, and sometimes it will be almost impossible to decide whether or not you are doing the correct thing, because you'll have to balance your goals and hopes with feeding yourself, paying debts, finding work, settling for what you can get.
Neil Gaiman
#16. Success isn't just work, but finding the right balance between life and work.
Antonius Houston
#17. Balance in life is the key, as Aristotle taught us. Nobody likes a naive Pollyanna, but neither do we like to be around people who are constantly complaining and finding fault.
Mark Skousen
#18. Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being ... Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven.
Eckhart Tolle
#19. The key to finding a happy balance in modern life is simplicity.
Sogyal Rinpoche
#20. My career is based primarily upon finding a balance with a director and their vision, and that means sublimating my own personal ego toward their material.
Robert Richardson
#21. You know, I use organic products, but I get [laser treatments]. It's what makes life interesting, finding the balance between cigarettes and tofu.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#22. It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
Philip Green
#23. It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
Oren Peli
#24. People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
Eleanor Clift
#25. The landscape affects the human psyche - the soul, the body and the innermost contemplations - like music. Every time you feel nature deeper you resonate better with her, finding new elements of balance and freedom ...
Nikos Kazantzakis
#26. I made a film about adolescence and what going through it is like for a specific group of girls. Adolescence is always about wanting desperately to be individuals, and also about wanting desperately to fit in. For every teenager it's about finding that balance.
Linda Goldstein Knowlton
#27. To her it was like being alone in the ocean, holding a kite string in one hand and an anchor chain in the other and finding the balance so she wouldn't sink.
Kate Evangelista
#28. As a woman, I have an inherent need to be all things to all people, to make certain everybody's taken care of. I know I can't sustain that level all the time, so I'm finding the proper balance and it's made me infinitely happier.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#29. There is a delicate balance that we need to honor as we try to find meaning in any event or state of mind: Many people confuse finding meaning with finding a reason, putting our finger on something or someone for blame.
Stephen Levine
#30. Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy.
Michael Swanwick
#31. Business is not about negotations, its about mutually finding a point of balance where both parties find their objectives meeting.
Sukant Ratnakar
#32. The balance between the paralysing hurt of losing the people you love and the absolute glorious revelation of finding the one person that makes you happier than you've ever been. Someone who makes you so happy that you stare into your future and finally look forward to it.
Beckie Stevenson
#33. Writing a novel and living a life are very much the same thing. The secret is finding the balance between going out to get what you want and being open to the thing that actually winds up coming your way.
Ann Patchett
#34. I get a lot of satisfaction from crafting and shaping mixes. I love finding the right balance, the right dynamic. It's an emotional interaction with the music.
Chris McCormack
#35. I think for any artist, your voice is always evolving. For me, the constant is finding a tension or balance between drama and comedy.
Lisa Cholodenko
#36. I am devoting some time to music. I'm finding a balance in my life right now so that when I'm not acting I'm really working on the music side of things ... producing and writing and recording and also getting to do some live shows. It's a really exciting thing.
Steven Bauer
#37. Activity and rest are two vital aspects of life. To find a balance in them is a skill in itself. Wisdom is knowing when to have rest, when to have activity, and how much of each to have. Finding them in each other - activity in rest and rest in activity - is the ultimate freedom.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#38. The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being.
Virginia Postrel
#39. Effective foreign policy has always involved the use of both sticks and carrots, and finding the right balance between the two is more art than science.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#40. Finding the balance between body, mind and spirit is a great achievement.
Rickson Gracie
#41. There's a certain balance between finding an opportunity to do what you really enjoy and getting caught up in the flattery of people wanting you to do things.
Jim Gaffigan
#42. There is something about finding the balance to one's nature - perhaps a culture that flourishes is a culture that has found a similar balance among its people.
Lily King
#43. Women and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it's just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I've found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West.
Grace Jones
#44. For me, the battle is finding the balance between wanting to spend time with my boys and then having enough perspective to still be the disciplinarian and, like, not be in the best friend business.
Rob Lowe
#45. Agile project leaders help their team balance at the edge of chaos - some structure, but not too much; adequate documentation, but not too much; some up-front architecture work, but not too much. Finding these balance points is the "art" of agile leadership.
Jim Highsmith
#46. It's like waking up and finding there's a war on. Nothing's the way it used to be and it's difficult to get your balance. That's why I held Billy's hand.
Glenda Millard
#47. The art of being a great entrepreneur is finding the right balance between vision and reality.
Giff Constable
#48. I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.
Dean Koontz
#49. I sat there, letting the idea of starting again soak in, finding beauty in the balance of life. We have ups and downs, and how we deal is up to us.
Ilsa Madden-Mills
#50. The human heart needs only the bare elements to survive, the human brain wants to the limitlessness of tolerance. Finding yourself is a matter of pitching your tent in the middle.
Zephyr McIntyre
#51. Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I've ever done - by far.
Gwen Stefani
#53. In contemporary music, the challenge for me is to make the recorder sound as naturally expressive as, for example, the violin - without doing it too much and forcing the instrument. It is very easy to be overly expressive on the recorder, and finding the balance is quite difficult.
Michala Petri
#54. Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.
Jennifer Lopez
#55. But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one day, wrecked on the rocks the next. Finding the balance between the two was the art and the salvation.
Elizabeth Berg
#56. That's what life is: repetitive routines. It's a matter of finding the balance between deviating from those patterns and knowing when to repeat them.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#57. The answer to finding better work/life balance is to find the right blend between all our life activities - regardless of where and when they occur.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
#58. The second challenge is to make sure that, growing up in this culture, they have a healthy view of life and God and Scripture. So, that's my other challenge. So, finding that balance is certainly no easy task but it can be very fulfilling. So, that's part of what we talk about in this book.
Alex Kendrick
#59. For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.
Anthony Doerr
#60. In trying to commit my life to finding and participating in some of the purposes of Christ, as I can determine them, my energies and abilities are gradually being focused and are working together.
Keith Miller
#61. There are a lot of things that I love, but if you're just completely invested in those things, their opposite can kick you over ... So the trick is finding out how to maintain your balance when you're in situations with the people who make you happy and when you're not.
Rebecca De Mornay
#62. Each individual has a unique food personality. The key is finding the balance point at which you feel great and are healthy.
Rachel Lynn Frank
#63. To just be--to be--amidst all doings, achievings, and becomings. This is the natural state of mind, or original, most fundamental state of being. This is unadulterated Buddha-nature. This is like finding our balance.
Lama Surya Das
#64. I think health is the outcome of finding a balance and some satisfaction at the table.
Alice Waters
#65. I definitely have an eye on doing more work in features and playing different characters, but I am also a big fan of going on vacation and playing golf and going to the beach. With anything, it's about finding the balance.
Bailey Chase
#66. The yoga pose is not the goal. Becoming flexible is not the goal. Standing on your hands is not the goal. The goal is serenity. Balance. Truly finding peace in your own skin.
Rachel Brathen
#67. Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.
Paul Kane
#68. I only do numbers/acts that excite me, or I connect to personally. I never phone it in. It's about finding the balance between what my audience wants and what I want to give them. That sweet spot in the vendiagram.
Jinkx Monsoon
