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"Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling 5 balls.

The balls are work, family, health, friends, and integrity.

And you're keeping them all in the air.

But one day you finally come to understand that

work is a rubber ball.

If you drop it, it will bounce back.

The four other balls -

family, health, friends, integrity - are made of glass.

If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

And once you truly understand the lesson of the five balls, you will have the beginnings of balance in your life."

~ James Patterson in Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas