“Work-life balance” seems to have become the best excuse for many people not to take responsibility for their professional and personal growth. But this “balance” that all of us love to talk about is not something conceptual. It is achieved by strategic, focused, hard work. It doesn’t come by default or when we say the magic words. That’s why many of us are leading lives far from our potential for success and fulfillment — because we wait for balance to happen, and it never does. I’ve been there, and it sucks.Most of us haven’t taken a single hour of our lives to think about what work-life balance means to us. Needless to say, we put zero effort into planning about it, working for it, living it. Open your calendar and show me what your work-life balance looks like. In 99 percent of cases, it’s not there — it’s nowhere to be found.”

“We don’t need faith or poetry or wealth or knowledge to feel fully alive. Life itself is enough.”

“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”

“You do not get what you wish for, unless it be known to the source of your desire.”

“If you don’t learn to be happy with your present, you will never be happy with your future which would be your present one day.”

“As material items can still leave us feeling unfulfilled, perhaps a better gauge of success is simply happiness, finding enjoyment in what we do.”

“If you want to know from your past failure, Take a look at you in the present moment. If you want for you to see a brighter future, Look at yourself more pleasant as content!”

“Dance like no one’s watching, sing like no one is listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, and suggestively fingerblast a cantaloupe on public transport.”

“You don’t have to have a dream for it to come true.”

“When we’re not thinking but just doing things, that’s when we’re happiest, when we feel most fulfilled.”

“The more we think we need, the less we get. The less we say we need, the more we have.”

“Being truly happy in life involves you feeling more in control of the direction your life is going.”

“You will have fewer regrets in life if you start focusing and taking responsiblity for where you are and where you want to be.”

“Yes: I exist inside my body.I’m not carrying the sun and the moon in my pocket.I don’t want to conquer worlds because I slept badly,And I don’t want to eat the world for breakfast because I have a stomach.Indifferent?No: a son of the earth, who, if he jumps, it’s wrong,A moment in the air that’s not for us,And only happy when his feet hit the ground again,Pow! In reality where nothing’s missing!(6/20/1919)”

“When you choose your own way, you lose your happiness”