"There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life."

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Source : Twitter post from Oct 14, 2015

Alain de Botton

#Fighting Quotes #Balance Quotes #Work Life Balance Quotes

“Nothing affects my acting. Acting is something I do with my soul so it embodies a lot of things. For me, I don't know about anyone else, acting is spiritual, so if I do not embody a character or a story or a script, it's going to be extremely difficult for me to be convincing and I don't like that because I am somewhat of a perfectionist”

Source : "Jermain Defoe: 'I wanted to put something back and stop all this youth violence'". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2012.
“Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.”

Source : "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, 2006.
“You sick, twisted monster," Sabrina seethed at Pinocchio.”
“Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.”
“I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.”
“Yet I do seriously and on good grounds affirm it possible to make a flying chariot in which a man may sit and give such a motion unto it as shall convey him through the air. And this perhaps might be made large enough to carry divers men at the same time, together with food for their viaticum and commodities for traffic.”

Source : A Discourse Concerning a New World and Another Planet book 1, proposition 14 (1640)
“The Jews are the conscience of the world. They are the father figures, stern, critical, and forbidding.”
“Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.”

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