Jonathan Haidt Quotes

Why is balance important? From a life lesson standpoint, it's about learning to enjoy yourself without getting the ego involved.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.

Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.

I believe you have to have balance in your life.

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.

I think if I manage to juggle a personal life that I'm really happy with as well, as long as I manage to maintain balance, that's kind of the mark of success to me.

I think love and beauty are what life is all about.

Balance is key: I need to be successful in my career to feel fulfilled, be surrounded by people I care about to share it with, and have my health to be able to do the things I love to do!

If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life.

I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kinds of relationships.

You have to be fulfilled in order for everyone else to be fulfilled. I'm a way happier, more pleasant person to be around when I take time for myself.

I firmly believe everyone needs to have balance in their life.

So, the older I got the more I started to appreciate balance and variety in my life, and once you get a taste of that returning and realize how happy it can make you it is very difficult to conceive giving that up again.

I enjoy the balance I have in my life.

When I feel like work and life are both going well, I feel like I can be fully present at both. I think the reminder to me is that both are super important, and I need to be able to feel like I can experience both in the way that makes me happiest. If I'm not happy in one or the other, it really affects the other side.

For me, having it all - if one wants to define it at all - is the magical time when what you want and what you have match up.

Life without balance can cost you your relationships. Life without balance can cost you your health. Life without balance can cost you your spirituality. Life without balance can cost you your wealth and your happiness. So find things to motivate you from all areas of life. Your success depends on it.

To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

Life's not all about money.

In relationship, be blissful, in aloneness be aware and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird.

Happiness is really just about four things: perceived control, perceived progress, connectedness (number and depth of your relationships), and vision/meaning (being part of something bigger than yourself).

Next to love, balance is the most important thing.

Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It's supposed to be fun.