Quotes About Balance

The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.

Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.

My balance comes from instability.

Everybody I ever knew wanted to show in some way how he held the world together. This only comes from feeling the strain of holding yourself together, and it gets exaggerated into the whole world from the hard labor you put into it.

omul fie creeaza,fie distruge..neutralitate nu exista..

You take too many pills of every kind—first stimulants and then depressants, anodynes followed by analeptics, until the poor organism doesn't know what's happened.

And although not convinced by her, I wasn't utterly horrified for the unborn either. To be completely consistent in that kind of economy of souls you would have to have great uneasiness and remorse that wombs should ever be unoccupied; likewise, that hospitals, prisons, and madhouses and graves should ever be full. That wide a spread is too much.

Ima u tome neke mudrosti, pomislio je, kao da bi posrtanjem mogao vratiti ravnotežu, ili priznaju?i malo ludila do?i pameti. A uživao je u šalama na svoj ra?un.

And I thought there was altogether too much of this to live with. Better forget it, in part. The Ganges is there with its demons and lords; but you have a right also, and merely, to wash your feet and do your personal laundry in it. Or even if you had a good car it would take more than a lifetime to do a tour of all the Calvaries.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

It's the hysterical individual who allows his life to be polarized by simple extreme antitheses like strength—weakness, potency—impotence, health—sickness.

This is the way of the weak; quiet and fair.

You burn the house to roast the pig.

I discovered, however, in the early days of our marriage that, in having her way, she put my interests ahead of her own.

Goethe once stated that anyone who merely increased his knowledge without at the same time showing himself what to do with it poisoned his life.

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.

Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.

La vie oscille, comme un pendule, de la souffrance à l'ennui

One simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain…is to compare the feelings of an animal that is devouring another with those of the animal being devoured.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: En general, las nueve décimas partes de nuestra felicidad se fundamentan en la salud (Arthur Schopenhauer)

The middle ages showed us the results of thinking without experimentation, our present century shows us what experimentation without thinking leads to.

Caring about the quality of your work causes stress. Stress can kill you. Maintain good health by remembering that the stockholders are complete strangers who have never done anything for you.

The most important form of selfishness involves spending time on your fitness, eating right, pursuing your career, and still spending quality time with your family and friends.

Priorities are the things you need to get right so the things you love can thrive.