Quotes About Balance

A substantial daily intake of alcohol was the perfect way to stay in shape.

Bezetenheid is het beste te genezen door het zelf te bezitten.

To forgive without justice is a self-satisfying weakness. Justice without love is simulation of strength.

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.

When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.

I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things

Un des problèmes essentiels qui se posent à propos de la femme, c'est la conciliation de son rôle reproducteur et de son travail producteur.

En general la soledad no me aterra y en pequeñas dosis hasta me distiende: las presencias que me son caras me fatigan el corazón.

Ils tenaient beaucoup à respecter les nuances de leurs rapports. Une amitié est un délicat édifice; elle s'accommode de certains partages mais elle réclame aussi des monopoles. Chacune des combinaisons que nous formions - à deux, à trois, à quatre - avait sa physionomie et ses agréments: il convenait de ne pas sacrifier cette diversité.

a abundância de lazer nos empobrece.

O segredo da felicidade e o cúmulo da arte é viver como todo mundo e ser como ninguém.

When one has lived so much for others it is quite hard to turn oneself back again— to live for oneself.

She was often late, not because she didn't care, but because she had too many contradictory cares.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Stars and blossoming fruit trees: Utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.

If we know in what way society is unbalanced, we must do what we can to add weight to the lighter scale ... we must have formed a conception of equilibrium and be ever ready to change sides like justice, 'that fugitive from the camp of conquerors'.

One must always be prepared to switch sides with justice, that fugitive of the winning camp.

The secret of the human condition is that there is no equilibrium between man and the surrounding forces of nature, which infinitely exceed him when in inaction; there is only equilibrium in action by which man recreates his own life through work.

The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship. Exactly, in every respect, including the slightest details of accent and attitude, for a detail may be enough to place the weaker party in the condition of matter, which on this occasion naturally belongs to him, just as the slightest shock causes water that has remained liquid below freezing point to solidify.

Whatever form, however, Antinomianism may assume, it springs from legalism. None rush into the one extreme but those who have been in the other.

The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day.

When Myra appeared she said at once, Now, we want you boys to go on playing around just as if we weren't here. The first evening, he stayed out for poker with the guides, and she said in placid merriment, My! You're a regular bad one! The second evening, she groaned sleepily, Good heavens, are you going to be out every single night? The third evening, he didn't play poker.