Quotes About Balance

Vanduo, kuris negali judÄ—ti, ima pelkÄ—ti.

small helpings, no seconds, no snacking, and a little bit of everything. - Julia Child

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We're...We're like Mrs Sun and Mr Rain on a barometer. When one of us is out, the others stays in. -Marcus

Books are not life, however much we may wish they were

Oliver used to have a theory he called Love, etc.: in other words the world divides into people for whom love is everything and the rest of life is a mere 'etc.,' and people who don't value love enough and find the most exciting part of life is the 'etc.

It was perfectly possible to be an artist, yet also to be robust and responsible.

And that's a life, isn't it? Some achievements and some disappointments.

When he's cheerful his tongue runs away with him, and he's depressed he can be unkind. So it's common sense not to let him into every are of your life.

The constant tug between nature and civilization is what keeps on our toes. Though of course, that did rather beg the question of how you defined nature and how you defined civilization.

Isn't there something between stagnation and heading somewhere?" "Like?" "Like having a nice time. Enjoy the day and all that?

Enforced monogamy is as much to say enforced happiness, which we know is not possible. Unenforced monogamy might seem possible. Romantic monogamy might seem to be desirable. But the first normally collapses back into a version of enforced monogamy, while the second is liable to become obsessive and hysterical. And thereby lies close to monomania. We should always distinguish between mutual passion and shared monomania.

Jake, who is both fitter and more hedonistic than me, once told me what they say about martinis: One's perfect. Two's too many. And three's not enough.

Work would be something I jogged along with; love would be my life.

Tai ir yra gyvenimas, ar ne? Šiek tiek pasiekim? ir šiek tiek nusivylim?.

De haber vivido, ¿habría disfrutado de la vida, como la mayoría hacemos o intentamos hacer? Quizá; o tal vez habría albergado culpa y remordimiento por no haber sabido acoplar sus actos con sus argumentos.

We live as if nature and nurture were equal parents when the evidence suggests that nature has both the whip hand and the whip.

Happiness is like the pox. Catch it too soon, and it wrecks your constitution

You can have your cake and eat it; the only trouble is, you get fat

Happiness depends necessarily on the unreality of one plane of your life: in one area ( emotional, financial, professional ), you should be living beyond your resources.

Weet je wat het is - de natuur is heel precies, het doet precies zoveel pijn als het waard is, dus beleef je in zekere zin, denk ik, genoegen aan de pijn. Als het er niet toe deed, zou het er niet toe doen.

You realise how sympathy and antagonism can coexist.

Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less and suffer the less?

at my age, one must ration one's excitement