Quotes About Balance

They say that life is about balance. That it trades one sorrow for one joy and so forth until it finds some kind of harmony. Well, I want none of it. I've never been as dead as I was when I was balanced. I don't want life to be contained. I want it unbound, inspired. Alive.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.

economy spoils pleasure

I have never done anything in my life except try to make myself ill when I had my health and try to make myself well when I had lost it. I have been equally and thoroughly successful in both, and today in that particular I enjoy perfect health, which I wish I could ruin again; but age prevents me.

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself

La perfetta uguaglianza è la base necessaria della libertà. Vale a dire, è necessario che fra quelli fra' quali il potere è diviso, non vi sia squilibrio di potere; e nessuno ne abbia più né meno di un altro. Perché in questo e non in altro è riposta l'idea, l'essenza e il fondamento della libertà.

La tartaruga lunghissima nelle sue operazioni ha lunghissima vita. Così tutto è proporzionato nella natura, e la pigrizia della tartaruga di cui si potrebbe accusar la natura non è veramente pigrizia assoluta cioè considerata nella tartaruga ma rispettiva.

I think it can be hard for any man to sometimes be upstaged by his wife. So when I'm home, I work very hard to be Todd's wife and Jade's mother. I have no problem going back to those traditional roles. I try to be Giada, the young girl that he met 20 years ago and fell in love with.

I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that's really hard for people to understand, but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn't overdo anything. We ate pasta, yes, but not a lot of it.

La natura è sleale, nella sua innocenza.

For those few minutes I experienced a feeling of complete mastery, a perfect, unstable equilibrium. The kind of perfection that belongs only to things that are temporary, destined to end shortly.

I had an image of myself and tried to live up to it. One way or another. Whenever there was a clash with reality, it was reality that had to adapt. But that's a mechanism that can't last forever. Gradually, you lose your sense of balance.

My grandfather often quoted it, and said that the rule of moral balance is the opposite of the behaviour described in that sentence. It means not lying to ourselves about the significance of, and the reasons for, what we do and what we don't do. It means not looking for justifications, not manipulating the account we make of ourselves to anyone, including ourselves.

Allow planning and discernment to take the needed amount of time.

Living systems can only count on a limited economy of resources in an environment that carries multiple demands for survival.

Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.

like a swan and its reflection on the surface of a lake.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.

Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.