Samantha Shannon Quotes

The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like I'm in the middle of a battlefield.

I believe you have to have balance in your life.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.

If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more.

This is a marathon in life. You can't be sprinting all the time or else you wear yourself out. You have to make sure you're taking care of yourself, keeping yourself grounded and not letting every little thing get you worked up.

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.

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.

The students realize that it's their life I'm talking about: it's out of balance, they're struggling to put it into balance. How are they going to do it?

I learned that I was just getting too consumed by racing. That's all I used to do was think about it. You have to be able to turn it off. You have to make yourself stop, or you'll get burned out.

I can handle the craziness some of the time, maybe most of the time. But I know I can't handle it all of the time.

It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't adjust to life as it's happening to you.

I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

It's all about balance and, I think, being in the moment.

My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.

I pushed myself way too hard during the first year of Veronica Mars and I got moody and run-down. Now I'll go to bed early instead of going out with friends. It's not always the most fun option, but I know I need at least eight hours of sleep to feel balanced.

The number one priority is playing baseball. There are so many people in New York trying to get you to do this and get you to do that, which is fine, but you have to take care of yourself.

I guess I kind of realized that my whole life isn't one giant press junket. I don't have to be smiling all the time and always have the perfect answer.

If you don't have the right people around you and you're moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself.

I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.

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

Everyone has their own definition of a healthy lifestyle, and mine has come to mean making health a priority but not an obsession.

You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.

I need some me-time. I have to remember to rest, because I have a natural energy and I don't want to burn out.

Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.