Quotes About Balance

Clearly the secret of happiness...is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.

Revenge is nothing but the dark side of the sense of fairness.

Beauty comes from tension: between order and disorder, simplicity and complexity.

be a human being first and a scientist second.

extreme specialization prevents scholars from developing a perspective.

I realized I wanted a just world here on earth, not a just paradise somewhere else.

An exercise in power should never be merely and indulgence.

Aber jeder Schatten ist im letzen doch auch Kind des Lichts, und nur wer Helles und Dunkles, Krieg und Frieden, Aufstieg und Niedergang erfahren, nur der hat wahrhaft gelebt.

happiness would prevail where trees were planted.

Sabit fikirli, kafas?n? tek bir düÅŸünceye takm?? her türlü insan, yaÅŸam?m boyunca beni çekmiÅŸtir, çünkü bir insan kendini ne kadar s?n?rlarsa, öte yandan sonsuza o kadar yak?n olur; iÅŸte böyle görünüÅŸte dünyadan kopuk yaÅŸayanlar, özel yap?lar? içinde kar?nca gibi, dünyan?n tuhaf ve eÅŸi benzeri olmayan bir maketini kurarlar.

The writer in him is only the shadow of the man, though so often we observe men whose art of writing is so great, but whose art of living is so modest.

When one does another person an injustice, in some mysterious way it does one good to discover (or to persuade oneself) that the injured party has also behaved badly or unfairly in some little matter or other; it is always a relief to the conscience if one can apportion some measure of guilt to the person one has betrayed.

el derecho impone también deberes y que el amor más puro acaba por fatigarse si no se siente correspondido.

the soul cannot remain at peace when the world beyond is in uproar.

It is my opinion that you should lend yourself to others and give yourself only to yourself.

Maar elke schaduw is in zijn diepste wezen toch ook een kind van het licht, en alleen wie licht en donker, oorlog en vrede, hoogtepunten en dieptepunten heeft meegemaakt, alleen die heeft waarachtig geleefd.

there must be a perpetual state of tension between torment and ecstasy if man is to be projected into the infinite.

But, after all, shadows themselves are born of light. And only he who has experienced dawn and dusk, war and peace, ascent and decline, only he has truly lived.

cuándo la razón es capaz de hacer algo contra el propio sentimiento!

In the last resort, every shadow is also the child of light, and only those who have known the light and the dark, have seen war and peace, rise and fall, have truly lived their lives.

pity is a double-edged weapon. If you don't know how to handle it you had better not touch it, and above all you must steel your heart against it. Pity, like morphine, does the sick good only at first. It is a means of helping them feel better, but if you don't get the dose right and know where to stop it becomes a murderous poison.

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.

If you avoid the killer diseases and keep the degenerative ones under control with sensible diet and exercise and whatever chemotherapy you need to stay in balance, you can live nearly forever.