What does balance mean to you? To me, it means recognizing the various aspects of yourself and tending to each one of them. It means that work needs play and seriousness needs laughter. It means allowing the negative sides of you to exist, sometimes right along side the positive parts.

Here’s what balance means to others:

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”~ Albert Einstein

“The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.” ~ Albert Einstein

“Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.” ~ Barbara De Angelis

“Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.” ~ Plutarch

“Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There’s no secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves” ~ Frank Herbert

“A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.” ~ William Arthur Ward

“The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.” ~ Euripides