Quotes About Balance

Being too reasonable is a defect

And I think the answer is that we are, in reality, terribly frail animals. And we don't like to be reminded of how frail we are—how delicate the balances are inside our own bodies, how short our stay on Earth, and how easily it is ended.

CivilizaÈ›ia nu ne ÎNDEPÄ'RTEAZÄ' de natur?. CivilizaÈ›ia ne PROTEJEAZÄ' de natur?.

And we don't like to be reminded of how frail we are—how delicate the balances are inside our own bodies, how short our stay on Earth, and how easily it is ended. So we imagine other life forms as being like us, so we don't have to think of the real threat—the terrifying threat—they may represent, without ever intending to.

Too much change is as destructive as too little.

You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct. Don't you have that feeling now?

The world is alive, Ted. Things are constantly in flux. Species are winning, losing, rising, falling, taking over, being pushed back. Merely setting aside wilderness doesn't freeze it in its present state, any

civilization doesn't separate us from nature, Ted. Civilization protects us from nature. Because

God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates Man. Man destroyes God. Man creates dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat Man...Woman inherits the earth.

People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.

What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.

The art we produce lives in queasy balance with the art we can imagine the art the room expects.

La mente puesta en la carne es muerte, pero la mente puesta en el espíritu es vida y paz.

People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.

A što s beskrajnim trudom da prona?eš ravnotežu izme?u osje?aja i ironije, ljepote i strogosti, i pritom otvoriš pukotinu u supstanci svijeta kroz koju bi mogla zasjati istina za smrtnike?

Remember, Peter: you are some hybrid of friend and hired help. You have latitude, but you can't get uppity.

Let go your earthly tether. Enter the void. Empty, and become wind

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.

The point is: your business is not your life.

They go to work on their lives, not just in their lives.

Quality is just a word, and an empty word at that, if it doesn't include harmony, balance, passion, intention, attention.

Es gibt Menschen, die können nie nach Phantasien kommen, und es gibt Menschen, die können es, aber sie bleiben für immer dort. Und dann gibt es noch einige, die gehen nach Phantasien und kehren wieder zurück. So wie du, Bastian. Und sie machen beide Welten gesund.

Según decían, tenían que aprovechar incluso los ratos libres, con lo que tenían que conseguir como fuera y a toda prisa diversión y relajación.