Charlotte Caffey Quotes

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

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.

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.

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?

When people disappoint you, it's just as much your responsibility to be aware of it and what you don't want.

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

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.

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

We can easily get our lives out of balance.

In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.

I know that balance that I need to have in my life.

Private life is always, at certain times, a challenge.

If you're upset by something I said, you have bigger problems than you think.

Sometimes, when you're doing too much, things get overwhelming. So I just have to calm myself down and think, 'What would my mama want me to do?'

Basically, it's in your best mental interest to release your anger so you can see the world more clearly around you and seek better solutions for finding the happy, love-filled life you desire and deserve.

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.

I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my 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.

If the relentless personal maintenance plan has taken over your life, give it a rest.

Meditation was a turning point for me. It helped me deal with a lot of stress and has given me a lot of relaxation.

Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.

I have not spent years in therapy; I tried therapy in my mid-twenties, and it did not go very well. I just thought, 'This is so not for me. I would rather talk to one of my girlfriends.' I'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much. I have young children, and I'm just pretty much crazed.

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

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.

We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.