Quotes About Balance

Sometimes life's OK

Somewhere between dust and the stars

You have reminded me of how alien I found the concept of acquaintances splitting the bill when I first arrived in your country. I had been raised to favour mutual generosity over mathematical precision in such matters; given time both work equally well to even a score.

I'm best in small doses, believe me.

Yes, the pursuit of love and the pursuit of wealth have much in common. Both have the potential to inspire, motivate, uplift and kill. But whereas achieving a massive bank balance demonstrably attracts fine physical specimens desperate to give their love in exchange, achieving love tends to do the opposite. It dampens the fire in the steam furnace of ambition, robbing of essential propulsion an already fraught upriver journey to the heart of financial success.

I know I'm standing still, but I feel like I've stumbled and I'm starting to fall.

Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.

E così, qualunque fosse la ragione, quella volta la moderazione ebbe la meglio, e l'audacia, perché ci vuole coraggio a non attaccare quando si ha paura

I do not think that less is necessarily more. But I don't think that more is necessarily more either. - Mohsin Hamid

I do not think that less is necessarily more. But I don't think that more is necessarily more either.

phones themselves have the innate power of distancing one from one's physical surroundings, which accounted for part of it

Too many times I'd left him reaching for me, from a babysitter's arms. Am I still a mother? I asked myself... What parts of the day could I cut out and still give him enough? Paul never asked himself that. He thought he was a great dad.

You need nature more than she needs you. It is not an equal relationship. Serve her well and she will look after you. Abuse her and everyone loses.

There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.

Il faut se prêter à autrui et ne se donner qu'à soi-même.

It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put them aside and pick them up again.

We need but little learning to live happily.

Nagy tisztelettel adózom vágyaimnak és hajlamaimnak. Nem szeretem bajjal gyógyítani a bajt; gy?lölöm az olyan orvosságokat, amelyek jobban zaklatnak, mint a betegség. Ha rajtam a vesekÅ' átka és még az az átok is, hogy meg kell tartóztatnom magam az osztrigaevéstÅ'l, két nyavalyát kaptam egy helyett. A betegség az egyik oldalról csíp belénk, a szabály a másikról.

Baz?lar? der ki iyinin a??r?s? olmaz çünkü a??r? oldu mu zaten iyi deÄŸil demektir. Ä°nsan?n gözü karanl?kta da iyi görmez fazla ???kta da.

Quand je danse, je danse. Quand je dors, je dors.

However naturalistic and 'wild' it appears, a garden is always an artificial environment made by people for people, so it makes sense to put the considerations of people – rather than plants – first.

An immaculate garden is a hostile place to most wildlife. Beautifully weeded borders, with every fallen leaf and twig gathered and disposed of, hedges kept constantly crisp and grass mown to within a fraction of its life may make a certain sort of gardener glow with pride but will provide little comfort for most of our birds, mammals and insects.

magpies, jays, sparrowhawks, kestrels, all

a little, would have existed to keep animals