Quotes About Balance

I think I have shown in my daily life that my feet are on the earth while the tips of my thoughts touch the stars.

Perhaps emotion, when it is tightly disciplined, turns into worry.

efficiency could be properly judged. It would be judged by your self-discipline, your individual intelligence, your mental and emotional balance, your grasp of the true essentials based on your breadth of mind and depth of thought.

Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read too much? How can you tell when someone's crossed the line.

I've read that madness is present when everything you see and hear takes on an equal significance. A dead bird makes you cry, and so does a doorknob.

We do not sufficiently respect that anti-mephistoclean force which, like the mephistoclean one, threatens the balance of life: a force that constantly wishes what is good and constantly produces what is evil.

Humanity demands from their leaders the courage to sin. To take account of reality means to take account of the devil. And to take account of the devil without degenerating and slipping into him is a difficult skill; it is the true problem of an ethic of balance, of the true center, not the ethic of simply negating what resists the demands of honesty, conviction, and love.

The devil, cheated of his legitimate portion of human life, avenges itself by taking over all of life.

My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

The fear of death came and went, though right now her life force was strong. But she had never forgotten what went through her mind when she balanced on the railing of the bridge. Life wasn't just something that took care of itself. There were big black holes you could fall into with long, sharp spikes at the bottom, monstrous traps.

one must occasionally stand the world on its head in order to put it on its feet.

On the one hand, everything is connected, on the other hand, it is not.

Life is like a pendulum. It swings back and forth between pain and relief. Without ceasing, endless. She

Today there is still a battle going on between those who carry sacks of cement, and those who place them on their women's heads.

We have to see things simply, but without simplifying. - Rydberg

We go through life with one foot in a rose garden and the other on quick sand, he thought. - (Kurt)

We go through life with one foot in a rose garden and the other in quick sand, he thought. - (Kurt)

self-preservation was more important than revenge, and

Luulen että juuri se teki minusta aikuisen, se oivallus että raakuus on yhdistettävissä nauruun.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.

Peace is first of all the art of being.

Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and real contemplation is the core of social action.

There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from the wound you want to heal.