Quotes About Balance

Intimate attachments are a hub around which a person's life revolves, not necessarily the hub.

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

It is not a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else.

Planning is important. Your paper has limits: don't fence more land than you can plow.

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.

Rien ne se cree, rien ne se perd

With great freedom comes great responsibility, someone said once, well, it doesn't work the other way around.

Dans la nature rien ne se crée, rien ne se perd, tout change. In nature nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything changes.

Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like a cake. Time is substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life.

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.

When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.

I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly it's not so dull, and besides, neither really loses anything through my infidelity.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, and the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

el secreto de un buen matrimonio es casarse con el otro sin divorciarse de uno mismo.

A nadie le vino la cordura antes que la insensatez. LUCIO ANNEO SÉNECA

el que se ocupa demasiado en hacer el bien, no tiene tiempo de ser bueno».

I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.

It is difficult to distinguish where the feminine ends and nature begins.

Lo esencial en cada una es la proporción entre dosis activa y dosis letal, pues sólo la cantidad distingue al remedio del veneno.