Quotes About Balance

mas a avareza é apenas a exageração de uma virtude e as virtudes devem ser como os orçamentos: melhor é o saldo que o deficit.

A onça mata o novilho porque o raciocínio da onça é que ela deve viver, e se o novilho é tenro tanto melhor: eis o estatuto universal.

Há grande diferença social entre um e outro, mas a natureza, assim como a sociedade a corrige, também às vezes corrige a sociedade.

De là naît une dispute: s'il est meilleur d'être aimé que craint, ou l'inverse. On répond qu'on voudrait être l'un et l'autre; mais comme il est difficile de les marier ensemble, il est beaucoup plus sûr d'être craint qu'aimé, quand on doit manquer de l'un des 2.

From this arises the following question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The answer is that one would like to be both the one and the other, but because they are difficult to combine, it is far better to be loved than feared if you cannot be both.

It is unreasonable to expect that an armed man should obey one who is unarmed, or that an unarmed man should remain safe and secure when his servants are armed.

It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his own strength and means; and he who knows that he has not a genius for fighting must learn how to govern by the arts of peace.

If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

One of the most pusillanimous things we of the female sex have done throughout the centuries is to have allowed the male sex to assume that mankind is masculine. It is not. It takes both male and female to make the image of God. The proper understanding of mankind is that it is only a poor, broken thing if either male or female is excluded.

And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.

What I must learn is to love with all of me, giving all of me, and yet remain whole in myself. Any other kind of love is too demanding of the other; it takes, rather than gives. To love so completely that you lose yourself in another person is not good. You are giving a weight, not the sense of lightness and light that loving someone should give.

When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.

We don't have to know everything at once. We just do one thing at a time, as it is given us to do.

Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being, in joyful rhythm.

Light and darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being in joyful rhythm.

If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

I used to feel guilty about spending morning hours working on a book; about fleeing to the brook in the afternoon. It took several summers of being totally frazzled by September to make me realize that this was a false guilt. I'm much more use to family and friends when I'm not physically and spiritually depleted than when I spend my energies as though they were unlimited. They are not. The time at the typewriter and the time at the brook refresh me and put me into a more workable perspective.

Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star.

It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.

You don't know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you'll ever learn.

But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.