Quotes About Balance

The knowing of joy and the knowing of pain are

The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, seeing that his work was good.

Les choses les plus belles sont celles que souffle la folie et qu'écrit la raison. Il faut demeurer entre les deux, tout près de la folie quand on rêve, tout prêt de la raison quand on écrit.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. Essential to remain between the two, close to madness when you dream and close to reason when you write

Loving yourself isn't vanity. It's sanity.

I always see, almost simultaneously, the two sides of each idea, and the emotion is always polarized in me.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

It was that ambiguous hour when night is drawing to an end, and the devil casts up his accounts.

Les choses les plus belles sont celles que souffle la folie et qu'écrit la raison. Il faut demeurer entre les deux, tout près de la folie quand on rêve, tout près de la raison quand on écrit.

my veneration of her grew in inverse proportion to my self-respect

I'm not feeling regret. I'm feeling confused and off balance." "And you like being in control." "Not of others, but of myself, yes.

It is obvious to everyone that man's material aggrandisement has not been synchronous with spiritual progress. The point has been reached where we seem to have a fatal incapacity for mastering our material achievements in order to use them for our own good. We have created a civilisation which threatens to annihilate mankind.

Despite everything, a balanced, independent, lonely way of life can give the peace that is vital. I must look for peace. I must start to do meditation seriously—there I go, thinking again in Italian terms —and Buddhism.

The artist has no right to an idea to which he is not socially committed, or the realisation of which could involve a dichotomy between his professional activity and the rest of his life.

Put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket carefully

It is not good to have TOO MUCH of anything.

The good was good and the bad was the beginning of wisdom. (Electric Brae)

All you need remember is one simple rule. Never mix business...with pleasure.

Just be aware that you reach a point of diminishing, or even negative, returns as the specifications get more and more detailed.

If you add layer upon layer, detail over detail, the painting becomes lost in the paint.

In measured doses, mortification cleanses the soul. It's the perfect antidote for excessive self-regard.

Fill in the shapes with the right tones and the form takes care of itself.

Prayer not only teaches and strengthens one for work, work teaches and strengthens one for prayer.

the distraction of business