Quotes About Balance

Toda la diversidad, la hermosura, el encanto de la vida, se componen de luces y sombras.

I wanted feeling to guide us in life, and not life to be the guide to feeling.

He wants to prove to me that his love for me must not interfere with his freedom

I threw it away feeling sorry to have vainly destroyed a flower that looked beautiful in its proper place. How many different plant lives man destroys to support his own existence.

How many different plant-lives man destroys to support his own existence - I thought!

Nothing does harm if one`s mind is at peace.

But Nikolay was brimming with such innocent good humour that now and then even the husband fell prey to his exuberance. Towards the end of the evening, however, as the wife's face grew redder and livelier, the husband's grew steadily paler and sadder. It was as if they had been issued with a limited amount of vivacity between them, and as the wife's share of it rose, the husband's dwindled away.

Is there a line to be drawn between psychological and physiological phenomena in man? and if so, where?

One can't cure anything. Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.

suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together.

Parents now are not expected to live at all, but to exist altogether for their children.

women are the pivot on which everything turns!

The means are... the balance of power in Europe and the rights of the people," the abbe was saying. "It is only necessary for one powerful nation like Russia—barbaric as she is said to be—to place herself disinterestedly at the head of an alliance having for its object the maintenance of the balance of power of Europe, and it would save the world!

One can live magnificently in this world, if one knows how to work and how to love, to work for the person one loves and to love one's work.

No one knew better than Stepan Arkadyevitch how to hit on the exact line between freedom, simplicity, and official stiffness necessary for the agreeable conduct of business.

He prescribed more physical exercise as far as possible, and as far as possible less mental strain, and above all no worry—in other words, just what was as much out of Alexey Alexandrovitch's power as abstaining from breathing.

Her maternal instinct told her that Natasha had too much of something, and that because of this she would not be happy.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow." Levin

if you don't strain the strings, and then try to break them, you'll find it a difficult job; but strain a string to its very utmost, and the mere weight of one finger on the strained string will snap it.

Women are the chief stumbling block in a man's career. It's hard to love a woman and do anything. There's only one way of having love conveniently without its being a hindrance—that's marriage.

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied. And it's true, as papa says,—that when we were brought up there was one extreme—we were kept in the basement, while our parents lived in the best rooms; now it's just the other way—the parents are in the wash house, while the children are in the best rooms. Parents now are not expected to live at all, but to exist altogether for their children.

In the organism of states such men are necessary, as wolves are necessary in the organism of nature, and they always exist, always appear and hold their own, however incongruous their presence and their proximity to the head of the government may be.

when things are made awkward by people's excessive compliance and submission, they are soon made unbearable by their excessive demandingness and fault-finding.