As much as I love crisp clean whites there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak especially at Thanksgiving.
So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work and there's life and there's no balance.
A lot of me is very up and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.
I don't think balance is something you get from someone else it's something women have to find from within. For me finding balance is still a work in progress.
Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.
John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.
Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
India is known for its sobriety and wisdom balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country.