Striving for Balance Quotes

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

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.

Human beings are very unbalanced and prone to go off on tangents. In every area of life- with too great emphasis on one thing, leaving out another important thing altogether. None of us will ever be perfectly balanced in our spiritual lives, our intellectual lives, our emotional lives, our family lives, in relationships with other human beings, or in our business lives. BUT WE ARE CHALLENGED TO TRY, WITH THE HELP OF GOD. We are meant to live in the scriptures.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

I was in a very dark place for a long time. It's just so hard to have normalcy.

We are like vessels tossed on the bosom of the deep; our passions are the winds that sweep us impetuously forward; each pleasure is a rock; the whole life is a wide ocean. Reason is the pilot to guide us, but often allows itself to be led astray by the storms of pride.

I always said life consists of love and work. I tried to balance it 50-50. And, of course, now I'm so happy I did.

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.

I was scared of failing, and I was scared of succeeding. I just wanted to be in a safe space and not grow too big or be too little.

I'm just doing the best I can now to keep this going... trying to grow up and remain young at the same time.

The painter Sidney Nolan once told me I tried too hard. Advice I've been trying hard to follow ever since.

If I weren't a showrunner, I'd be a much more accomplished mother; if I were not a mother, I would be a much more accomplished showrunner. I have to be okay with getting a B in both.

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

I've made choices that work with my family. I want to work and I want to be with my family so I just walk the tight-rope of showing up for both those things.

Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do, and you don't need to beat yourself up about it.