Quotes About Balance

Yet the land we are to possess is a land of valleys and hills. It is not all flat or downhill. If life were always smooth and level, the boring sameness would weigh us down. We need the valleys and the hills. The hills collect the rain for hundreds of fruitful valleys. And so it is with us!

If life were always smooth and level, the boring sameness would weigh us down. We need the valleys and the hills.

Drop Your still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease: Take from our souls the strain and stress; And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Your peace. Breathe through the pulses of desire Your coolness and Your balm; Let sense be mum, its beats expire: Speak through the earthquake, wind and fire, O still small voice of calm!

Sky and sea, keep harm from me. Earth and fire, bring… my desire.

Light to darkness, Jenny. Darkness to light. It's always been that way.

There is no good and evil, only black and white. But either black or white on its own is boring, Jenny. If you mix them you get so many colors— so many colors...

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It was, after all, the natural order of things. Animals killed weaker animals. Humans killed animals. I killed humans. Every species had their foe. I shuddered to think what monster was powerful enough to hunt me.

Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.

Happy the man who lives at home, making it his business to regulate his desires.

Whatever difference may appear in men's fortunes, there is nevertheless a certain compensation of good and ill that makes all equal.

Those who apply themselves too much to little things commonly become incapable of great ones.

We should manage our fortune as our constitution; enjoy it when good, have patience when 'tis bad, and never apply violent remedies but in cases of necessity.

We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it is a symmetry whose rules are unknown.

Une minute vient de s'écouler. Cela fait environ cent morts et cent nouveau-nés de plus. Une centaine de vagissements et une centaine de derniers soupirs. Le calcul est fait depuis longtemps. Le compte est exact. C'est la balance du grouillement de l'humanité. Dans une heure, il y aura six mille cadavres sous votre lit et six mille petits enfants, tout autour de vous, pleureront par lierre ou dans des berceaux.

Il appartenait sans aucun doute à cette lignée idéales de chenapans que la Providence institua, dès l'origine, pour l'équilibre des Séraphins.

The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.

What I'm against is a sport that rewards mass for the sake of mass to the exclusion of all other physical properties of the physique. In other words, there comes a point where, if you keep adding muscle mass, the human body loses its beauty, shape and form. That's what I'm against.

As to the lawful pleasures of the mind, the heart, or the senses, indulge in them with gratitude and moderation, drawing up sometimes in order to punish yourself, without waiting to be forced to do so by necessity.

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.

She could be the woman, the lady, who wished to be proper, who wished to please, as well as the wanton she obviously was instructed, and loved, to be.

I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.

If you dont have any shadows you're not in the light

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.