Quotes About Balance

You gonna eat, you should eat good." From

Will do cop work for sex? - It's become my daily mantra.

It seemed only fair.

In the real world of good and evil, good doesn't have a party if they've got a reason to think evil might try to crash.

I find myself pulling back, too often, from friends. It's easier, and more self-indulgent, to be alone. I need a nudge out of that cycle from time to time.

Often when a parent loses herself-or himself-in the day-to-day responsibilities and demands of raising children, they become a less effective, and less loving parent than they might be.

Too many meetings. I'd go psycho if I had to face days stuffed with meetings. There are all these people in them.

You fit, you know, you and Dallas. Christ, the two of you fit." They did, yes, Roarke thought when the door closed. But the fit wasn't always comfortable.

A nice settled moment between the business of the day and the puzzle of the evening. It occurs to me these are moments I live for.

Yet we cannot live our daily lives in a realm of pure ideas, cocooned from sense-experience. The question is not, How can we keep the imagination pure, protected from the onslaughts of reality? The question has to be, Can we find a way for the two to coexist?

It occurs to me that we crush insects beneath our feet, miracles of creation too, beetles, worms, cockroaches, ants, in their various ways.

Todo amor, al final es moderado

Asymmetrie [macht] Menschen unglücklich.

Sabe bien que Dmitri se burla de él a sus espaldas. Dice que es "el hombre de razón", cuyas pasiones están siempre bajo control. Una vez Dmitri preguntó:"¿Qué mundo sería este si todos aceptáramos el imperio de la razón?". Y respondió: "Un mundo muy, muy aburrido". A él le gustaría replicar: "Tal vez sea aburrido, pero mejor que un mundo sometido al imperio de las pasiones".

Unos días se siente feliz, incluso privilegiado, por vivir con una mujer bella, o al menos por no vivir solo. Otros días se siente de otro modo. ¿Qué es verdad: la felicidad, la infelicidad o un punto medio entre una y otra?

Laws are made for one purpose only (...) to hold us in check when our desires grow immoderate. As long as our desires are moderate we have no need of laws.

The earth is neither fabulous nor paradisal. And therefore it is not hell.

God maintains a delicate balance between keeping his existence sufficiently evident so people will know he's there and yet hiding his presence enough so that people who want to choose to ignore him can do it. This way, their choice of destiny is really free.

If you're going to insist on being reasonable, I'm going to stop hanging with you.

Well . . . in the words of Vishous, want in one hand, shit in the other? See what you get most of.

Life has gotten in the way of our life.

Don't be an asshole, the guy snapped as he cracked a freshie. Oh, right, because two in this group would be overkill.

United by their clasped hands, they became again the two halves, the light and the dark. The Destroyer and the Savior. A whole.

Humans: Nature's remedy for an otherwise good time.