Quotes About Balance

Todo hombre es poeta. Olvidan hacer versos porque se dedican a hacer otras cosas, hacer dinero, por ejemplo.

In death too, there is always something of the rich cat that lets the mouse run before devouring it.

There is no defect without its own virtue and vice versa.

Human perfection and technical perfection are incompatible. If we strive for one, we must sacrifice the other.

There are eras of decline in which the form our inner life is destined to take becomes blurred. In these periods, we stagger this way and that like creatures who have lost their balance. We sink from hollow joys into dull sorrow, and a pervasive sense of loss lends the future and the past a more alluring air. And so we maunder through remote pasts or distant utopias while the present moment vanishes.

A plant on the edge of a desert is said to struggle for life against the drought, though more properly it should be said to be dependent on the moisture

Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.

Si on bouge sans cesse, on impose un sens, une direction au temps. Mais si on s'arrête en se butant comme un âne au milieu du sentier, si on se laisse emporter par la rêverie, alors même le temps s'arrête et n'est plus ce fardeau qui pèse sur nos épaules. Si on ne le porte pas il verse, il se répand tout autour comme la tache d'encre que ma plume faisait toute seule, droite en équilibre sur le buvard, pour retomber ensuite, vide.

Ci sono carezze che aggiunte sopra un carico lo fanno vacillare

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

An acceptable proportion must be maintained whether in a novel, therapy or everyday life — between pain and other aspects of living. Humor, irony, diversity of interests, a sense of adventure, mystery, love — all are story elements passed over by those people who are most imprisoned within their pain. Such persons can be only temporarily interesting, either in a novel or in life itself.

But why not, especially since the usual test for a waiver of one's rights is whether it is knowing as well as voluntary? Justice Stewart, writing for the Court, said candidly that that would make it too hard for police to conduct searches. He said that two competing concerns had to be balanced: law enforcement's need to perform such searches and the desire to prevent coercion.

In Theocritus' real Sicily, the joys and sorrows of the human heart complement each other as naturally and inevitably as do rain and shine, day and night, in the life of nature.

LIVING MATTER EVADES THE DECAY TO EQUILIBRIUM

It is by avoiding the rapid decay into the inert state of 'equilibrium' that an organism appears so enigmatic;

What an organism feeds upon is negative entropy. Or, to put it less paradoxically, the essential thing in metabolism is that the organism succeeds in freeing itself from all the entropy it cannot help producing while alive.

Yesterday was my day off and I decided to play hooky for the Bible study I usually go to on Saturday mornings and sleep in. Probably not my most shining moment, but Katie and Eliza kept me up until past two talking about wedding plans and I'd been up since before five. They were Pinteresting wedding décor and I was googling "can you die from sleep deprivation" on my phone under the table. Turns out you can.

There was but a thread between life and death, and he had stumbled blamelessly onto the wrong side of it.

I learned you pay for your happiness. That's why I don't expect to be happy all the time. I'd rather be surprised by one moment every so often to remind me that joy is possible, even if I have to pay for it later.

I don't expect to be happy all the time. I'd rather be surprised by one moment every so often to remind me that joy is possible, even if I have to pay for it later.

The total person sings not just the vocal chords.

Tom isn't an evil person—he is well regarded in his company. Neither is Brad, who is actually quite lovely with colleagues. Anyone can be knocked off balance and may respond incongruently. Incongruence does not make someone a bad person, but it can render them less effective. Situations that involve significant change are particularly likely to cause people to lose balance.

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

True Allowing is maintaining your own balance, your own joy, no matter what they are doing.