Quotes About Balance

We're here to keep you in one piece, if you ignore us, you're quite likely to end up in two pieces, or lots of pieces, it's all part of the paradox.

Creativity is on the side of health – it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness. The

Everyone has a demon as you so rightly observed [...] but not everyone knows this, and not everyone knows how to make use of it. [...] We're [the demons] here to keep you in one piece, if you ignore us, you're quite likely to end up in two pieces, or lots of pieces, it's all part of the paradox.

Everything we do is falling. Even walking is a kind of controlled falling. But that's not the same as failing.

He had seen the vision of perfect heroism and, for a fleeting moment, the vision of perfect peace. He sought it again, to balance him. He was a warrior who longed to grow herbs.

It works because the principle of personal space is always the same, whether you're fending off an elemental or someone's bad mood. It's a force field around yourself, and as long as our imagining powers are weak, it's useful to have something to remind us.

Living with life is very hard. Mostly we do our best to stifle life - to be tame or to be wanton. To be tranquillised or raging. Extremes have the same effect; they insulate us from the intensity of life. And extremes - whether of dullness or fury - successfully prevent feeling.

People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much.

Biz hissedecek ÅŸekilde tasarlar?mlan?p inÅŸa edildik, dolay?s?yla hiçbir zihinsel halimiz, hiçbir düÅŸüncemiz yoktur ki ayn? zamanda bir duygu durumu olmas?n. Hiçbirimiz a??r?, kald?rabileceÄŸimizden fazla hissetmeyiz, ancak baz?lar?m?z mümkün olduÄŸunca az hissedebilmek için elinden geleni yapar.

Mi piace il modo in cui i gatti amano stare un po' dentro e un po' fuori, per assecondare sia il loro lato domestico sia quello selvatico, e anch'io mi sento selvatica e domestica. Posso stare in casa, ma solo se la porta è aperta.

The inside and the outside of our lives are each the shell where we learn to live.

This isn't a head/heart split or a thinking/feeling split. It is emotional matrix. I can juggle different

vivía en tan grato sosiego distribuyendo el tiempo entre mi trabajo, mi instrucción y mis placeres

Dès lors qu'elle dépend à la fois de sa propre conscience et des opinions des autres, il faut qu'elle apprenne à comparer ces deux règles, à les concilier, et à ne préférer la première que quand elles sont en opposition. [...] Rien de tout cela ne peut bien se faire sans cultiver son esprit ou sa raison.

The great secret of education is to use exercise of mind and body as relaxation one to the other.

I cannot repeat too often that to control the child one must often control oneself.

A man who lives ten years for himself and others without the help of doctors lives more for himself and others than one who spends thirty years as their victim.

Nulle société ne peut exister sans échange, nul échange sans mesure commune, et nulle mesure commune sans égalité.

veo un animal menos fuerte que unos, menos ágil que otros, pero, en conjunto, el más ventajosamente organizado de todos;

In instinct alone, man had everything he needed in order to live in the state of nature; in a cultivated reason, he has only what he needs to live in society.

Ma mémoire, qui me retrace uniquement les objets agréables, est l'heureux contrepoids de mon imagination effarouchée, qui ne me fait prévoir que de cruels avenirs.

Binbir yere baÄŸlanmaya çal???rken hepsi elimden kaç?p da kendi kendime kal?nca, dengemi yeniden buldum. Her yandan s?k??t?r?lmama kar??n o dengeyi koruyorsam, art?k hiçbir ÅŸeye baÄŸlanmad???mdan, yaln?zca kendime dayand???mdand?r.

The mind has its needs, as does the body. The needs of the latter are the foundations of society; the needs of the former make it pleasant.

Toute passion est bonne quand on en est maître, mais mauvaise quand on en est assujetti.