The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.
I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well.
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Sarah Dessen
My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.
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Ellen DeGeneres
There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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Alain De Botton
The trick.. .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.
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Wendy Wasserstein
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...
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Elizabeth Gilbert
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Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition.
You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality. When at last age has assembled you together, will it not be...
...[T]here are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating.
I admire a contented mind. I revere enjoyment of the simple things. I can imagine that contentment has a high degree of truth. But the human tendency is to take good as normal, and one's natural right, and so no cause for satisfaction and pleasure....
I say to life, "You are very hard", and I also say: "We are blind, we prefer to be blind. It is easier..". Life has to be hard to have any affect on us; even now we hardly notice it. Beyond that can one go?...
