Quotes About Balance

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

The dance is four-dimensional art in that it moves concretely in both space and time. For the onlooker, it is an art largely of visual space combined with time. But for the dancer, and this is more important, the dance is more a muscular than a visual space rhythm, a muscular time, a muscular movement and balance. Dancing is not animated sculpture, it is kinesthetic.

Spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It's a mistake of emphasis.

After all, there were bills to pay, shopping to do, kids to raise, and sports to watch, so who had time for anything else?

Take care lest perchance you fall into the mistake of thinking to gain more by being merciful than by being just; for to pardon him too easily that has transgressed is to wrong him that transgresses not.

Is adoration a blasphemy or the key to life, to life eternal, our weight in the balance of the grace of God? (Must Jesus bear the cross alone!)

It may well be that if mankind could draw up a hedonistic balance-sheet, the pleasures of mundane existence would turn out to be greater than its sufferings.

Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.

Moderation is the key-note of lasting enjoyment.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

La femme mariée est une esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un trône.

Misery begets equality.

Pare mai totdeauna coliba s?lbaticului civilizat

His life flowed soundless as the sands of an hour-glass.

Nature has favored our sex in giving us a choice between love and motherhood. I have made mine. My children shall be my gods, and this spot of earth my Eldorado.

If men of imagination and good sense, like you, desert one camp only to join the other; if they cannot keep to the happy medium between two forms of extravagance, we shall always be exposed to the satire of the sophists, who deny all progress, who compare the genius of man to this tablecloth, which, being too short to cover the whole of Signor Giardini's table, decks one end at the expense of the other.

Man is the minister of Nature, and society engrafts itself upon her.

Your wife ought to drink water, lightly tinged with a Burgundy wine agreeable to her taste, but destitute of any tonic properties; every other kind of wine would be bad for her. Never allow her to drink water alone; if you do, you are lost...

A husband ought never to be the first to go to sleep and the last to awaken.

A hobby is a happy medium between a passion and a monomania.

In every case we receive only in proportion to what we give.