Quotes About Balance

THE BOOK THIEF—LAST LINE I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

So much good, so much evil. Just add water

I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right. Outside

Era un lunedì e camminavano verso il sole su una corda tesa.

Maybe the only thing that matters is to make our lives last as long as we do. You know, to make a life last until it ends, to make all the parts come out even, like when you rub the last piece of bread in the last drop of oil on your plate and eat it with the last sip of wine in your glass.

Festina lente. Make haste slowly.

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

Steady as she goes

One of the things about equality is not that you be treated equally to a man, butthat you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light.

All through his life, he swung between the ridiculous and the sublime

The old saying is true enough. The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

Sunshine and Shadows...That is also the pattern of our lives, ain't so? We have the gut things and the sad, one after another, but all part of who we are

Si Alemania es hoy en día, según yo creo, una de las naciones más resistentes al miedo y más equilibradas de Europa, es muy posible que sea porque, en lugar de maldecirse sarcásticamente unos a espaldas de los otros, los políticos de ambos lados realmente se sientan a hablar y a reflexionar.

Fully occupied by the process of achieving innumerable goals, we lose the ability to determine which goals really matter, and why.

I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can't have one without the other.

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grows without the thorn

There are already plenty of people who will take a firm stand on the need to be competely impartial between right and wrong.

Justice will be found, said Plato, when everyone does their own job, and minds their own business

Time is his luxury, and he is prepared to spend any amount that is necessary to get a picture right, which is another paradox, since by nature LF is packed with nervous energy and still apt, for example, to dive into traffic and sprint down the road in pursuit of a taxi. 'All my patience', he notes, 'has gone into my work, leaving none for my life.

It would be a 'tour de force' to do the two jobs, Clementine continued, 'like keeping a lot of balls in the air at the same time. After all, you want to be a Statesman, not a juggler.' Churchill had no intention of giving up his Air portfolio.

To dwell is to garden.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.