Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's always a balance, and sometimes I'm on the good side of that scale, and sometimes I'm on the bad side.
I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.
Everything in life... has to have balance.
I know that balance that I need to have in my life.
I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.
I believe you have to have balance in your life.
People talk about balance. Balance is an awful measure of things because it implies a scale that inevitably tips. I like to look through the filter of, 'Is the life I'm leading consistent with my priorities?' For me, my family is the ultimate litmus test.
I want balance in my life.
I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration... of work, family, self, community.
Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.