Quotes about Balance
Once it was necessary that the people should multiply and be fruitful if the race was to survive. But now to preserve the race it is necessary that people hold back the power of propagation.
— Helen Keller
Cooking is the best way to unwind at the end of a long writing day. There's something mindless and hands-on about cooking, which makes it feel like the very opposite of writing, which is heady but inactive.
— Lauren Kate
There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
— Wayne Dyer
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you don't take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You're doing too much, you're being too much in charge. You've got to quit, one day a week, and just watch what God is doing when you're not doing anything.
— Eugene Peterson
There's nothing wrong with wanting to be the best, but when it takes over the joy in the moment, and the joy in the journey, then that's where there's an internal tension. And I have to surrender that.
— Lauren Daigle
I'm married. I have three children. I have a mortgage to pay. The plumbing breaks and the yard needs trimming. However, what my wife and children need most from me is my passion for them.
— John Eldredge
TV started for me just as a means of keeping my husband Desi off the road. He'd been on tour with his band since he got out of the Army, and we were in our 11th year of marriage and wanted to have children.
— Lucille Ball
Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.
— Ezra Taft Benson
I need an inspiration that is grounded in reality while thoroughly transcendent.
— John Ortberg
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
— Francis de Sales
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
— St. Augustine