Quotes About Balance

numero deus impare gaudet.

Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.

The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.

If you are losing your leisure, look out! -- It may be you are losing your soul.

She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine ...

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order

a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

So on a summer's day waves collect, overbalance, and fall; collect and fall; and the whole world seems to be saying 'that is all' more and more ponderously, until even the heart in the body which lies in the sun on the beach says too 'that is all'. Fear no more, says the heart. Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall.

Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began?

Sir William said he never spoke of 'madness'; he called it not having a sense of proportion.

The human frame being what it is, heart, body, and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well

I am rooted, but I flow. All gold, flowing that way.

For nothing [...] is more heavenly than to resist and to yield; to yield and to resist.

Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotion made the ply of human life.

All extremes are dangerous. It is best to keep in the middle of the road, in the common ruts, however muddy.

For nothing matters except life; and, of course, order.

the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water

A light here required a shadow there.

The good citizen when he opens his door in the evening must be banker, golfer, husband, father; not a nomad wandering the desert, a mystic staring at the sky, a debauchee in the slums of San Francisco, a soldier heading a revolution, a pariah howling with skepticism and solitude.

The human frame being what it is, heart, body, and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. The lamp in the spine does not light on beef and prunes. We are all

Övgüler yerindeydi de, yerinde olmayan sinirlerimdi.

It gave to everything its exact measure of colour; to the sandhills their innumerable glitter, to the wild grasses their glancing green.

Tengo raíces, pero floto.

For among writers there are two kinds: there are the priests who take you by the hand and lead you straight up to the mystery; there are the laymen who imbed their doctrines in flesh and blood and make a complete model of the world without excluding the bad or laying stress upon the good.