Quotes About Balance

It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness

It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity

If a way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst.

There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.

Love, though added emotion, is substracted capacity

When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.

He is a sort of steady man in a wild way, you know. That's better than to be as some are, wild in a steady way. I am afraid that's how I am.

All things merge in one another - good into evil, generosity into justice, religion into politics...

But it was also obvious that man could not live by work alone; that the particular man Jude, at any rate, wanted something to love.

Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self-contained in their daily lives.

Feeling had indeed smothered judgment that day.

And it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. The scales are balanced so nicely that a feather would turn them.

the negative often meant nothing more than the preface to the affirmative

Tess and Clare unconsciously studied each other, ever balanced on the edge of a passion, yet apparently keeping out of it. All the while they were converging, under an irresistible law, as surely as two streams in one vale.

it is difficult to adjust our outer and inner life with perfect honesty to all!

The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of a straight line.

I want something that makes people strong and energetic for the present, that borrows the strength of to-morrow for use to-day—leaving to-morrow without any at all for that matter; or even that would take all life away to-morrow, so long as it enabled me to get home again now.

tal vez me interesara saber por qué... por qué sale el sol lo mismo para el bueno que para el malo

She knew how to hit to a hair's-breadth that moment of evening when the light and the darkness are so evenly balanced that the constraint of day and the suspense of night neutralize each other, leaving absolute mental liberty.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect which gave it the sweetness, because it was that which gave it the humanity.

a day which had a summer face and a winter constitution