Quotes About Balance

Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.... The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Je souhaiterais bien avoir plus parfaite intelligence des choses, mais je ne la veux pas acheter si cher qu'elle coûte. Mon dessein et de passer doucement, et non laborieusement, ce qui me reste de vie.

Kun je ook maar iemand goed vinden als je niemand slecht vindt?

Livet består av en del galskap, og en del visdom; den som bare skriver ærbødig og konvensjonelt, utelater mer enn halvparten.

I have heard Silvius, an excellent physician of Paris, say that lest the digestive faculties of the stomach should grow idle, it were not amiss once a month to rouse them by this excess, and to spur them lest they should grow dull and rusty; and one author tells us that the Persians used to consult about their most important affairs after being well warmed with wine.

But between ourselves, let me say that there are two things I have always observed to go hand in hand: super-celestial opinions and sub-terrestrial morals.

If you did not have death, you would curse me incessantly for depriving you of it. Realizing its advantages, I have deliberately mixed a little bitterness into it to prevent you from embracing it too greedily and imprudently. To place you in the state of moderation I ask of you, of neither running from life nor fleeing from death, I have modulated them both between sweet and bitter.

During the night, her body had come to a fine agreement with the blanket, sheets, and mattress; they'd all got on really well and found the perfect balance of natural blood-circulation and cost wrapped-upness.

Un solo día dedicado a cosas que no alimentan el espíritu es un día robado, mutilado y arrojado a la alcantarilla del destino.

Granted, he once opined in a Cambridge undergraduate magazine that 'a single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day

we can't keep it going if too much of what we need is taken away from us.

how can one sleep while dancing at the edge of waves?

soÌ"phrosyneÌ", el estado al que tendemos, mediante el ejercicio del autocontrol y mediante la moderación en la práctica de los placeres, está caracterizada como una libertad.

What is the good of power and precision if the price we pay is ugliness and death? What is the good of thinking, if we have no idea how to live?

The body receives gratuity. The world gives graciously, disinterestedly, asking for nothing back, expecting nothing in return; it has no scales, no balance sheet. Our senses cede nothing in return for it, can give nothing back to the source of given beauties. What could the eye give back to the sun, or the palate to the vines of Yquem?

Pure things give off positive energy; impure things don't.

The care of the body, under the intelligent control of the mind, is an important branch of yogi philosophy, and is known as 'Hatha Yoga,' " Ramacharaka writes.

I may not be evil, but that doesn't mean I'm a saint.

There is so much more to marriage than who makes the money. Some of the hardest parts don't come with a paycheck.

Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.

My energies have been drained. Masturbating too much will do that.

when a woman is content in her marriage, her husband is much happier; a man's level of satisfaction within the marriage, however, appears to have no bearing on his wife's happiness.

It made no sense, but nothing did at the moment, and at least this was a good crazy.

If the Light and the Dark were so absolute, why couldn't they give her absolute answers? Why did everything have to be so confused?