Quotes About Balance

Work is how you settle your financial and emotional debts—so that your travels are not an escape from your real life but a discovery of your real life.

Certain activities—sleeping, eating, reading, socializing, wandering—will become a fixture of each day. This is good and well (routines make your day more efficient, after all), but you should be careful not to let your days or destinations blur together. Once this begins to happen—once you feel yourself getting jaded to the long haul—it's time to mix your travels up a bit.

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

The line between 'normal' and 'neurotic' begins to appear when any activity becomes compulsive - that is, when the person feels pushed to perform the act because it habitually allays his anxiety rather than because of any intrinsic wish to perform the act.

Life is not a matter for simple optimism--for there is evil; nor for mere pessimism--for there is good. The possibility for good in the face of evil is what gives life tragic meaning.

It is the seeming contradiction that we must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong.

It takes a strong self—that is, a strong sense of personal identity—to relate fully to nature without being swallowed up.

conscious anxiety is more painful but it is available also to use in the service of integration of the self.

the insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.

Beneath our loquacious chatter, there is a silent language…Our common human language is not…something to do with vocal cords and speech. It is, rather, our sense of proportion, our balance, harmony and other aspects of simple and fundamental form.

Hesse holds that Haller's—and his contemporaries'—isolation and anxiety arise from the fact that the bourgeois culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries emphasized mechanical, rationalistic "balance" at the price of the suppression of the dynamic, irrational elements in experience.

If the world can no longer afford the luxury of natural beauty, then it will soon be overcome and destroyed by its own ugliness.

The best way to defend yourself against the power of money is to have some.

La vérité, c'est qu'il y a une quantité incroyable de gouttes qui ne font pas déborder le vase. C'est fait pour ça.

Kažkur greta kažin kokia garbinga ranka, matyt, prilaik? svarstykles, ir galutinis matas negal?jo b?ti neteisingas, dievai nežaidžia sužym?tais kauliukais iš motin? širdži?.

It's absolutely essential that man should manage to preserve something other than what helps to make soles for shoes or sewing machines, that he should leave a margin, a sanctuary, where some of life's beauty can take refuge and where he himself can feel safe from his own cleverness and folly. Only then will it be possible to begin talking of civilization.

Quand on a deux corps, il vient des moments où l'on est à moitié.

Trop, c'est personne.

Quand on a deux corps, il vient des moments où l'on est à moitié.

La vérité, c'est qu'il y a une quantité incroyable de gouttes qui ne font pas déborder le vase.

They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior

Let each man have his share of sun and shade

Give an intellectual any ideal and any evil passion and he will always succeed in harmonizing the twain.

Il faut savoir allier le pessimisme de l´intelligence à l´optimisme de la volonté.