Quotes About Balance

Parents owed their children admonition and discipline, not expressive sentiment.

I remember that feeling, that comfort, that sense of everything in its place, the rightness of it all, when the winter is loved and the summer is all the sun there is. When you want that specific moment, that time, that place, that situation, forever. You can't force it or wish it, and praying doesn't help. You wait, you keep going, you hope maybe it will come around again. That flawless equilibrium.

Nothing human's not a broth of false and true.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Good Advice You've a head and a heart? Reveal only one of them, I say; If you reveal both at once, doubly they'll damn you, for both.

es sei nicht immer Tag und auch nicht Nacht.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.

I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.

Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.

One has to know the size of one's stomach.

Go up close to your friend but do not go over to him! We should respect the enemy that is in our friend

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

Joyous distrust is a sign of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology.

A man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instincts a chance.

I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.

Tethered heart, free spirit.--If one tethers one's heart severely and imprisons it, one can give one's spirit many liberties.

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking

One pays dearly for any kind of mastery on earth, where perhaps one pays too dearly for everything; one is master of one's trade at the price of also being its victim.

All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects.

Just as in the second part of a verse bad poets seek a thought to fit their rhyme, so in the second half of their lives people tend to become more anxious about finding actions, positions, relationships that fit those of their earlier lives, so that everything harmonizes quite well on the surface: but their lives are no longer ruled by a strong thought, and instead, in its place, comes the intention of finding a rhyme.

So I ask my pride that it always go along with my wisdom. And when my wisdom leaves me one day alas - it loves to flyway - let my pride then fly with my folly.

Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.