Denis Waitley Quotes

In the future, I will make certain that I commit to projects so there's enough breathing space for me to have an emotional life.

If any of those times you rushed around madly - trying to get somewhere faster - had ever made any real difference in the quality of your life... don't you think you'd be able to slow down by now?

I have fun when I want to have fun, but I am learning how to balance my life out.

This gives us more time to attend the inner need.

Life is all about balance. My work is very important to me, but so are my relationships. I make time for that aspect of my life, and it makes me happy having balance in my life.

For so many career women who are also mothers, our own well-being comes last. But when you take the time to make your health a priority, other parts of your life will fall into line.

I just want to focus on the positive things in my life.

If my biggest problem in life was to be healthy, I'd be incredibly bored.

I've gotten to do some really amazing things, gone to some really amazing places, and just have some really unique experiences. And if I have one regret looking back it's that - not a regret even, because I think that's kind of labeling depression as something you can control - but I just wish I would have been able to enjoy it more fully.

Far too many people hide behind their busy lifestyles

It's important to know when we need to stop, reflect, and receive. In our competitive world, that might be called a waste of time.

You have to protect the integrity of the show, your health, the character, all those things. So it's just about finding the right moments for everything. And if you're too stressed or tired, you to just back off for a little bit.

The thought has cheered me, and I'd like to hang onto that. Must protect my little pockets of happiness.

I'm a big believer in doing what you've got to do, but taking a breather when you can.

A Superwoman isn't a woman who can do anything, but a woman who avoids doing too much.

My life is not balanced and not everything is perfect all the time.

The whole thing is, do as much as you can, when you possibly can, and don't stress.

As we got more interested in time management and productivity, we lost the individual, and with that individual loss, we lost happiness as well. So I think the world has actually been malnourished as we've focused so much on productivity and ignored happiness and meaning to our own detriment.

I don't know that anyone in the United States is taught to rest.

I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don't want anyone to worry their life away.

I find that if I use my time well and take care of my mind/body when I'm outside of work, then I feel more supported throughout my day.

Whatever it is that people find that they want to work on they also have to remember that they are human beings and they need to save some time for themselves for personal growth, for mental health, for their families, their loved ones so that they will have the strength to continue doing that work.

The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activity neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.

Long week. Long month. Long life.

There are a whole lot of people who are so freakin' busy—they've so cluttered up their lives—they're at their wits' end. And if they'd only just stop for a minute, they could hear the God of the universe whisper to them, “I love you.