Quotes About Balance

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail

I doubted if the near neighborhood of man was not essential to a serene and healthy life.

I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both.

Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them. I

I need thy hate as much as thy love.

I have heard it said that one loses a woman by loving her too much, that an affectation of coldness, from time to time, brings better results. And so on. I shall play no such tricks with you … Let love be truly love—that is, let it be peace—or let it not exist at all.

Enough is equal to a feast.

It is exports that pay for imports, and vice versa. The greater exports we have, the greater imports we must have, if we ever expect to get paid.

When they make it a main objective to increase exports, most of them do not realize that they necessarily make it a main objective ultimately to increase imports.

You young men have too many jokes. When there are no jokes you've nothing left.

The increasing seriousness of things, then that's the great opportunity of jokes.

What should one do with the misery of the world in a scheme of the agreeable for one's self?

Madame Merle had once said that, in her belief, when a friendship ceased to grow, it immediately began to decline - there was no point of equilibrium between liking a person more and liking him less.

Why indeed should we perpetually be thinking whether things are good for us, as if we were patients lying in a hospital?

E non puoi sempre piacere a te stessa, qualche volta devi piacere agli altri! [...] ma c'è una cosa che è anche più importante: devi spesso dispiacere agli altri.

I'm sure you've an excellent spirit; but don't try to bear more things than you need.

the Countess often asked more from one's attention than she gave in return

Order is the dream of man, but chaos is the law of nature.

She has such variety and yet such harmony.

The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.

Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.

The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre.