Quotes About Balance

extremes of feeling are allied to madness;

In the midst of chaos there was shape; this eternal passing and flowing… was struck into stability.

I have been longing for inner consistency.

Es preciso que el dedo de la muerte se pose en el tumulto de la vida de vez en cuando para que no nos haga pedazos? ¿Estamos conformados de tal manera que diariamente necesitamos minúsculas dosis de muerte para ejercer el oficio de vivir?

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

Terá o dedo da morte de pousar de vez em quando no tumulto da vida para evitar que ele nos despedace? Tal será a nossa condição que devamos receber, diariamente, a morte, em pequenas doses, para podermos prosseguir na empresa da vida?

But here, none too soon, are the second-hand bookshops. Here we find anchorage in these thwarting currents of being; here we balance ourselves after the splendours and miseries of the streets.

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.

No se puede tener paz evitando la vida.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.

If you don't leave home you suffocate, if you go too far you lose oxygen.

Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the future.

In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

In harmony there is nothing strange. And life is a vast harmony. I've understood this. But, you see- the moulded whimsy of a frieze on a portico keeps us from recognizing, sometimes, the symmetry of the whole. . .

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

And a beautiful garden, not far from a beautiful lake, and I said it sounded perfectly perfect.

The subject may be crude and repulsive. Its expression is artistically modulated and balanced. This is style. This is art. This is the only thing that really matters in books.

the artist in me has been given the upper hand over the gentleman.

It is not the parts that matter, it is their combinations.

Esiste, nella scala dimensionale del mondo, un punto di incontro tra conoscenza ed immaginazione. Un punto al quale si perviene rimpicciolendo le cose grandi ed ingrandendo quelle piccole.

Anything that is not necessary to the painting damages it. Henri Matisse

Like a good gardener who knows when the soil needs alkali and when acid, the competent tennis pro should be able to help the development of your game.