Quotes About Balance

The point is, you see, said Ford, that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.

If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

I'd far rather be happy than right any day. And are you? No. That's where it all falls down, of course. Pity, said Arthur. It sounded like rather a good lifestyle otherwise.

So, the world is fine. We don't have to save the world—the world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about, is whether or not the world we live in, will be capable of sustaining us in it. That's what we need to think about.

Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.

Alltami (n.) The ancient art of being able to balance the hot and cold shower taps.

Why can't people just learn to live together in peace and harmony?" said Arthur. Ford gave a loud, very hollow laugh. "Forty-two!" he said with a malicious grin. "No, doesn't work. Never mind.

She felt faintly embarrassed by the sheer profusion of things she had for putting in baths, but she was for some reason incapable of passing any chemist's or herb shop without going in to be seduced by some glass-stoppered bottle of something blue or green or orange or oily that was supposed to restore the natural balance of some vague substance she didn't even know she was supposed to have in her pores.

on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

Insanity is a gradual process - don't rush it.

The The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.' 'And are you?' 'No. That's where it all falls down, of course.' 'Pity,' said Arthur with sympathy. 'It sounded like quite a good lifestyle otherwise.

Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.' 'And are you?' 'No. That's where it all falls down, of course.

What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

but I'd far rather be happy than right any day." "And are you?" "No. That's where it all falls down, of course.

La scienza ha raggiunto traguardi meravigliosi, certo, ma io preferirei essere felice piuttosto che avere sempre ragione.

Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

Bu büyüklükteki bir evrende eÄŸer yaÅŸam var olacaksa, kiÅŸinin orant? duygusu diye bir lüksü kald?ramayaca??n? kesin olarak kan?tlamas?yd?.

We like to be on one side, and look at the other.

Well, I wouldn't overstress that angle, you know,' he said finally, 'one's never alone with a rubber duck.

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.