Quotes About Balance

You can never read bad literature too little, nor good literature too much.

Das Leben schwingt, gleich einem Pendel, hin und her, zwischen dem Schmerz und der Langeweile.

And I may say, further, that a certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times. A ship without ballast is unstable and will not go straight.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them.

Quanto menos vida pessoal, mais segura e melhor será a vida intelectual.

A quick test of the assertion that enjoyment outweighs pain in this world, or that they are at any rate balanced, would be to compare the feelings of an animal engaged in eating another with those of the animal being eaten

In fact, the balance wheel which maintains in motion the watch of metaphysics that never runs down, is the clear knowledge that this world's non-existence is just as possible as its existence. ?from_The World as Will and Representation_. Translated from the German by E. F. J. Payne. In Two Volumes, Volume II, p. 171

Pokój jest wiÄ™cej wart ni? prawda.

The pleasure in this world, it has been said, outweighs the pain; or, at any rate, there is an even balance between the two. If the reader wishes to see shortly whether this statement is true, let him compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is engaged in eating the other.

A vida oscila, como um pêndulo, de um lado para o outro, entre a dor e o tédio.

Recuerda que en tiempos arduos hay que conservar la ecuanimidad, lo mismo que en buenos un ánimo que domina prudentemente la alegría excesiva.» Horacio, Carmina, II, 3]

Give way neither to love nor to hate, is one-half of worldly wisdom: say nothing and believe nothing, the other half.

De um modo geral, a forragem da cocheira dos professores é a mais apropriada para esses ruminantes. Em contrapartida, aqueles que recebem o seu alimento das mãos da natureza preferem o ar livre.

BaÅŸkalar?n?n fikirlerine a??r? derecede önem vermek, herkeste var olan bir manyakl?k

Zor zamanlarda itidalini korumay?, güzel anlarda da a??r? sevincini dizginlemeyi hat?rla. -Horatius, Carmina

Vigilance is needed to ensure that the value of omitting the one meal is not offset by increasing the intake at others!

Rahel's "list" was an attempt to order chaos. She revised it constantly, torn forever between love and duty. It was by no means a true gauge of her feelings.

The tired wisdom of knowing that what goes around eventually comes around.

They had always fitted together like pieces of an unsolved (and perhaps unsolvable) puzzle—the smoke of her into the solidness of him, the solitariness of her into the gathering of him, the strangeness of her into the straightforwardness of him, the insouciance of her into the restraint of him. The quietness of her into the quietness of him.

Marriage is not always bliss, but it does not have to ruin one completely." Donata sighed.

Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.

Sometimes we can offer a cure, sometimes only a salve, sometimes not even that. But whatever we can offer, our interventions, and the risks and sacrifices they entail, are justified only if they serve the larger aims of a person's life. When we forget that, the suffering we inflict can be barbaric. When we remember it the good we do can be breathtaking.

The three primary risk factors for falling are poor balance, taking more than four prescription medications, and muscle weakness.

you live longer only when you stop trying to live longer.