Quotes About Balance

Outer order contributes to inner calm." Why is this true? Perhaps it's the tangible sense of control, or the relief from visual noise, or the release from guilt. In the span of a happy life, having a messy desk or an overflowing closet is clearly trivial, and yet creating order gives a disproportionate boost of energy and cheer.

Maintaining a healthy weight requires us not to follow a temporary diet, but to change our eating habits forever.

In The First 20 Minutes, Gretchen Reynolds notes, "I stand on one foot when I brush my teeth at night.

By giving something up, I gain.

Eliminating clutter makes the burden of daily life feel lighter...

it takes at least five good acts to repair the damage of one critical or destructive act.

leisure must be entered on the schedule as its own activity; it's not something I get only when I have nothing else to do. Because I always have something else to do. Having

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Plowing turns the world upside down. Overgrazing and undergrazing create deserts. Chemical fertilizers make the farm field an addict.

Twin terrors: to be awake; to be asleep.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Tenha cuidado com a tristeza. É um vício.

Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Soyez réglé dans votre vie et ordinaire comme un bourgeois, afin d'être violent et original dans vos Å"uvres.

When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at night are made for mediocre minds – like those horses that are equally good for saddle and carriage, the worst kind, that can neither jump a ditch nor pull a plow.

If you want to be happy, it is necessary not to be too intelligent.

Contradiction is what keeps sanity in place.

Il faut mettre son cÅ"ur dans l'art, son esprit dans le commun du monde, son corps où il se trouve bien, sa bourse dans sa poche, son espoir nulle part.

Izgledalo joj je da poneka mesta na zemlji sama po sebi stvaraju sre?u, kao što neka biljka uspeva na jednom zemljištu, a na drugom ne.

Self-possession depends on its environment.

The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.

Não devemos nos acostumar com os prazeres impraticáveis, quando ao nosso redor nós temos mil exigências...

Dormir. Trop dormir épaissit le sang.

Madame Bovary was nog nooit zo mooi geweest als nu; zij bezat de raadselachtige schoonheid die uit vreugde, geestdrift en succes voortspruit, een schoonheid die ontstaat wanneer de aard van het wezen harmonieert met de uiterlijke omstandigheden.