Quotes About Balance

He was fighting hard to draw a line where politics could stop, where family loyalty could stop and his own personal morality and his own life could begin. It was hard to find that place

Perspective is the cure for depression.

Y quizá la única manera de producir una obra de arte perdurable sea no tomándola demasiado en serio, no dándole mayor importancia, distrayéndose un poco o, como dirían los psicólogos actuales, dejando que la subconsciencia influya

I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's specialty seems to me as strange as eating nothing but horseradish. - Lara, from Doctor Zhivago

I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's speciality seems to me as strange as eating nothing but horseradish.

It's not their fault. It's because they've been taught that 'Work is holy, good and beautiful. It counts above everything else, and the workers alone will inherit the earth.' Only things have been arranged so that they have to spend all their time working and there's no time left for the rest of it to come true.

Mieux vaudrait apprendre à faire l'amour correctement que de s'abrutir sur un livre d'histoire.

Les gens perdent leur temps à vivre, alors, il ne leur en reste plus pour travailler.

Et tout rentra dans l'ordre, pourtant déjà bien plein.

There's no pyramid with literary fiction at the top and everything else at the bottom. It's a flat line.

Life is a martial art.

A compleat gentleman seeks a harmonious union of body and soul, and if his will—his soul—is strong then his body ought to be strong as well.

People who took themselves too seriously not only were no fun, but could also be very dangerous.

Leadership was not only about taking charge, it was also about giving your team everything they needed to succeed, and then getting out of their way. It meant knowing when you should be the first person charging through a door and when you should stand down and let someone else do it. Harvath

Il est impossible d'apprécier la lumière sans connaître les ténèbres. It is impossible to appreciate the light without knowing the darkness.

Wells, though, had never touched her. It would have been like mixing alcohol and firearms. Guaranteed to be a lot of fun, right up until it wasn't.

the days are long and the years are short.

less of mankind—something he believed Mother Nature would eventually deliver in the form of widespread famine and disease.

It is impossible to properly appreciate the light without knowing the darkness.)

is impossible to appreciate the light without knowing the darkness.

Those who would trade a little liberty for a little added security, deserve neither and will lose both.

What I think of on this point is, when self is the fixed point the centripetal force is balanced with the centrifugal. When duty, a cause, etc., is the fixed point, the latter force is paramount, and only accident of a series of accidents can balance it.

Festina lente may well be his motto

He who is not of nature has yet to obey some of nature's laws.