Quotes About Balance

Mário estabelecera do seguinte modo o problema da sua vida: trabalhar o menos possível no serviço material para trabalhar o mais possível no serviço impalpável; por outras palavras, dar algumas horas à vida real e lançar o resto no infinito.

Szubienica to waga, która u jednego koÅ"ca ma czÅ'owieka, a u drugiego caÅ'Ä… ziemiÄ™. By? czÅ'owiekiem - piÄ™kna to rzecz.

L'uguaglianza, cittadini, non significa ridurre ogni vegetazione a ad uno stesso livello, una società di giganteschi fili d'erba e querce nane.

La montagne, la mer, la forêt, font des hommes sauvages. Elles développent le côté farouche, mais souvent sans détruire le côté humain.

La primera igualdad es la equidad

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

CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE

for, if liberty is the summit, equality is the base.

The inordinate weight of this man was disturbing the balance of human destiny. This individual alone counted for more than the rest of the world put together. These excessive quantities of human vitality concentrated in a single person – the world going to one man's head – would be fatal to civilization if it were to continue.

CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR

Supreme art is the region of Equals. There is no primacy among masterpieces.

Mais soyons justes envers l'aristocratie. Elle a fait équilibre à la royauté; elle a été contrepoids. Elle a fait obstacle au despotisme; elle a été barrière. Remercions-la, et enterrons-la.

Leni was afraid to stay and afraid to leave. It was strange—stupid, even—but she often felt like the only adult in her family, as if she were the ballast that kept the creaky Allbright boat on an even keel.

And maybe that was how love was supposed to be, how life unfolded when you lived it long enough. Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps, was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly because you never knew when a strong heart could just give out.

Don't take peace for granted. It can shatter like glass.

She wanted to daydream, pretend that her world was upright instead of fallen on its side;

a family wasn't a static thing. There were always changes going on. Like with continents, sometimes the changes were invisible and underground, and sometimes they were explosive and deadly. The trick was to keep your balance. You couldn't control the direction of your family any more than you could stop the continental shelf from breaking apart.

They would always be a family, but if she'd learned anything in the past few weeks it was that a family wasn't a static thing. There were always changes going on. Like with continents, sometimes the changes were invisible and underground and sometimes they were explosive and deadly. The trick was to keep your balance. You couldn't control the direction of your family any more than you could stop the continental shelf from breaking apart. All you could do was hold on for the ride.

Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps, was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly because you never knew when a strong heart could just give out.

Možda je tako trebalo biti,možda se tako život razvijao ako živiš dovoljno dugo.Radost i tuga sastavni su dio paketa;trik je u tome da osjetiš sve,ali da se malo ?vrš?e držiš radosti jer nikad ne znaš kad bi se snažno srce moglo ugasiti.

She was feeling too much right now, and that was dangerous. Being a good psychiatrist was like reading a novel at forty. You needed to keep the words at arm's length or everything became a blur.

While they were virtual roller coasters of emotion, you needed to be calm, always.

being a doctor was a snap compared to being a single parent.

They both understood; every at-home mom in the world understood. Ultimately there were prices to be paid for the choices a woman made.