Ardal O'Hanlon Quotes

I want to help give people the ability to stop and take just a few minutes a day to regroup and refocus: to give them a chance to get perspective on the things that matter and the things that don't.

We all get so caught up in the moment of what we're doing every day, it's hard to hit that reset button and get pulled away from all that and see life from a different perspective.

You have to know how to keep things in perspective.

I think it is important to make sure that I have my real life as well, because Hollywood can certainly seem like an alternate reality sometimes.

We finally sat down and asked ourselves how much of our lives we wanted to give everybody. We had just given a little too much, and it started to become a burden.

Nobody's life is ever all balanced. It's a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day.

Writing can be a tough gig. Whenever you do something in which you put yourself out there - if that becomes the focus of your life, you miss the point of living. You've really got to get the grounding of family and the things that are important in your life and make that your focus.

I've lost perspective on what I'm doing. I think it's good for me to take a break and reassess why I'm doing it and how I'm doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does.

It is a challenge at times, but trying to stay centered and balanced helps me keep things in perspective.

Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.

It's an old principle, as old as the Buddha or Marcus Aurelius: We need at times to step away from our lives in order to put them in perspective. Especially if we wish to be productive.

We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

I'm not much of a partier anymore. I enjoy clarity much more.

Put your choices in perspective.

When you're waking up every day, and it's all about you, I don't consider that to be a way to live your life if you can help it. I think people who know me know that I find time to enjoy myself and not take life - or myself - too seriously at all.

Always keep things in perspective.

My biggest change is what is important to me, and what is not. What's worthy worrying about, and what is not. When we're younger, we tend to spend too much time worrying and going over the unnecessary. I'm no longer running the hamster wheel.

Almost every morning I write in my journal. I've been keeping it for a long time - I've filled more than 50 books. I write about what's going on in my personal and spiritual life or what's going on at work. It helps me keep things in perspective, especially when things get crazy or I get stressed or we have obstacles.

The simple things in life ground me and keep me focused so I'm able to do a good job with what is in front of me.

Running fills a need so we make fewer demands on others. Running reveals the roots of negative thinking, so the weeds can be pulled. Running reconnects the soul to the source, inspiring hope and creativity.

Early One Morning takes time and, I mean, all things like that I felt were very important.

There's a balance in my life. There's reality, and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.

I think it's important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.

Motherhood has helped me to stop overanalyzing things. It's been liberating because I used to be somewhat neurotic. I attribute that to having something bigger than myself.

As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.