Life Imbalance Quotes

My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.

Nothing in my life is going right, right now and there's got to be a reason for that. I think that God is trying to get my attention to tell me that this is going to end very, very badly if I don't walk away from it.

The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

It's easy when you're working together to let work things overtake your life, when all you're talking about is work, and you never leave that space.

I spent most of my life from 24 to 31 at the office. I wasn't going to people's weddings; I wasn't cultivating my marriage. I wasn't happy.

It should be only a part of my life, but it isn't. I have only one thing: my work.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

My personal life absolutely goes down the drain when I start working; that's something that I'm incapable of doing.

When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death

Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it's telling you something isn't right.

It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.

When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.

Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.

We do some things for family reasons. If it's not consistent, well, life isn't always consistent.

I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.

Every band I've been in, it's just become my total life. I feel like a child star - I've missed out on so much.

I was very good at my work and I wasn't real good at my life.

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.

The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.

It's pretty weird when you are just touring all the time and you don't have a normal life. You're out of touch with reality too much.

If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance.