Quotes About Balance

Disminuir el número de los tenebrosos, aumentar el de los luminosos; tal es el grande objeto. Por esto gritamos: ¡Enseñanza! ¡Ciencia! Aprender a leer es encender el fuego; toda sílaba deletreada brilla. Pero el que dice luz, no dice necesariamente goces. También se padece en la luz, porque el exceso quema. La llama es enemiga de las alas. Arder sin cesar de volar es el prodigio del genio.

Monastic communities are to the great social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is to the human body.

Si se quiere ser feliz, señor, no se puede tener sentido del deber; pues, si uno lo tiene, el deber es implacable. Se diría que nos castiga por querer cumplir con él; pero, no, más bien nos recompensa, pues nos precipita en un infierno en el que nos sentimos cerca de Dios. Apenas nos hemos desgarrado las entrañas, nos hallamos en paz con nosotros mismos.

The child watched its disappearance--he was astounded but dreamy. His stupefaction was complicated by a sense of the dark reality of existence. It seemed as if there were experience in this dawning being. Did he, perchance, already exercise judgment? Experience coming too early constructs, sometimes, in the obscure depths of a child's mind, some dangerous balance--we know not what--in which the poor little soul weighs God. Feeling himself innocent, he yielded. There was no complaint

pedantry. What was this excess of love? It was a serene

weep for them all," the bishop said. "Equally," G——— exclaimed, "and if the balance tips, let it be on the side of the people: They have suffered longer.

Indigestion was designed by God to impose morality on stomachs.

What matters it if the earth be red! the moon remains white; these are the indifferences of the sky.

The circumstances of happiness are not enough, there must also be peace of mind

These two products of a man's labor often come together. At the very moment when you become rich you are paralyzed. That rounds off your life.

A harmony established contrary to sense is often more onerous than a war.

Nothing oppresses the heart like symmetry.

Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from it. What is the cat? he exclaimed. It is a corrective. The good God, having made the mouse, said: 'Hullo! I have committed a blunder.' And so he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, is the proof of creation revised and corrected.

Les recomiendo la moderación en sus deseos. (Tholomyes)

The beautiful is as useful as the useful. ... perhaps more so.

The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? There

The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a pause, More so, perhaps.

But no sword is simple. Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

The poacher lives in the forest, the smuggler lives in the mountains or on the sea. The cities make ferocious men because they make corrupt men. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they develop the fierce side, but often without destroying the humane side.

Tantôt il bêchait la terre dans son jardin, tantôt il lisait et écrivait. Il n'avait qu'un mot pour ces deux sortes de travail, il appelait cela jardiner.

The tiniest worm is of importance; the great is little, the little is great; everything is balanced in necessity; alarming vision for the mind. There are marvellous relations between beings and things; in that inexhaustible whole, from the sun to the grub, nothing despises the other; all have need of each other.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful.

Munch no sugar, therefore, and you will live!