Quotes About Balance

Quando o prazer está presente, desde que seja ininterrupto, não há dor nem do corpo, nem da mente, nem de ambos ao mesmo tempo

Que ninguém se demore a buscar a sabedoria quando for jovem, nem se canse na busca dela quando envelhecer. Pois nenhuma idade é muito cedo ou muito tarde para a saúde da alma.

And often we consider pains superior to pleasures when submission to the pains for a long time brings us as a consequence a greater pleasure.

É impossível viver uma vida agradável sem viver sabiamente, bem e justamente, e é impossível viver sabiamente, bem e justamente sem viver agradavelmente.

Nenhum prazer é em si mesmo mau, mas as coisas que produzem certos prazeres acarretam aborrecimentos muitas vezes maiores do que os próprios prazeres.

The impassive soul disturbs neither itself nor others.

The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there is no pain either of body or of mind or of both together.

Nessuno è mai troppo giovane o troppo vecchio per la salute dell'anima.

Nichts genügt dem, für den genug zu wenig ist.

The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in their turn.

When I shoot I'll take my family with me - one movie a year and then the rest of the time at home.

The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours.

To hurry is to neglect that environment and to be conscious only of something that is still out of sight down the road, or of mere obstacles, or solely of oneself

Nah, I don't watch TV either, apart from a few sports programmes. I just don't have the time.

Trabaja no para cubrir tus gastos, sino para vivir.

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

I think it's better to be involved in one or two movies a year.

Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...

The universe is a constantly evolving process: night makes way for day, the seasons change, the generations succeed one another. To be truly happy we have to find our own balance in a sea of eternal change.

Glac bóg an saol agus glacfaidh an saol bóg thú. (Take life fine and easy and life will be fine and easy on you.) Tailor Buckley 'Tim' (1863-1945)

If the shrike did not eat the grasshoppers, then the grasshoppers would eat all the grass, and there would be none left for the deer...and the deer are food for the tiger. Life in the jungle is a giant spiderweb; if you touch one strand, it will vibrate at the other end. We cannot separate nature into good and bad, Rita. The gods do not will it so.

We look back and we look ahead, but we live in the time we are allowed.

Fericirea nu înseamn? s? te fereÈ™ti de suferin??, ci s? o integrezi în existenÈ›a ta".