Quotes About Balance

I'm very independent. I'm not sure how I'd deal with someone who wanted to be with me 24/7.

I am a wire-walker. I can walk any time, anywhere - I'm indestructible.

To achieve important things, we have to sacrifice what's important to us. That's an idea that's very central to Indian thinking.

Je n'ai jamais quitté mon travail pour me "consacrer" à ma famille. La formule déjà me faisait horreur: dans consacrer je voyais sacrifice. Et il y avait con !

The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.

Virtue is the effort, the conquest of a difficulty, leaving, as its results, a balance of happiness. There may be, there is much good in the world, which no virtue has been concerned in producing. But there is no virtue where there is no balance of happiness.

Non si puo' essere sempre moderni, impeccabili e aggiornati. L'ultimo grido e' interessante. Ma non occorre sempre gridare. Qualche volta e' meglio abbassare la voce, e limitarsi a parlare.

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

He that always blames, or always praises, is no patriot.

Living on a larger scale would soon entail a lot of care and strife We could be so happy with the little things in life A little rain, a little sun, a little work, a little fun A little time for loving when the day is done

Love unto exhaustion, work unto exhaustion, and walk unto exhaustion....The only mortal danger for the spirit is to remain too long without it. The world is made of fire. —MARK HELPRIN, A SOLDIER OF THE GREAT WAR

It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve without generating electricity, a trumpeter swan may float on uncontaminated water - and moderns may at least see what their ancestors knew in their nerves and blood.

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway."

we don't live in Plato's Commonwealth, and when we can't have perfection we ought to comply with the measure that is least remote from it.

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

A light winter means a hard summer.

Goûter l'instant présent. S'occuper de ce qui nous fait face. Marcher sur la Terre. Telles sont les trois grandes recettes de vie léguées par la reine Goum-goum-ni.

Natura ur??te uniformitatea È™i iubeÈ™te diversitatea. Poate c? în asta È™i const? geniul ei.

Le jour où la société humaine n'éprouvera plus de sentiment de supériorité ou de crainte devant un phénomène naturel, l'homme sera en homéostasie avec son univers. Il connaîtra l'équilibre. Il ne se projettera plus dans le futur. Il ne se fixera pas d'objectifs lointains. Il vivra dans le présent tout simplement.

En fait, pour bâtir un couple, il faut être quatre : un homme plus sa part de féminité, une femme plus sa part de virilité. Deux êtres complets ne recherchent plus chez l'autre ce qui leur manque. Ils peuvent s'associer sans fantasmer sur une femme idéale ou un homme idéal puisqu'ils les ont déjà trouvés en eux, déclame mon compagnon de célestitude.

That afternoon they ended up dancing to Amr Diab in Yazz's room Yazz tells Waris it's important to counterbalance the state of being cerebral with the state of being corporeal Waris asks her if she means they need to do physical activity because they spend too much time thinking? Yes, that's it, Yazz says, making elaborate movements with her arms as she dances Why didn't you just say that then?

he's straight-backed, thanks to monthly Alexander Technique sessions to counteract what he calls academic hunchback syndrome