Quotes About Balance

Tedn for we to be setting the world in step. Tedn sense, tedn natural, tedn right, tedn safe.

If we lived for ever, who would look forward eagerly to tomorrow? If there were no darkness, should we so appreciate the sun? Warmth after cold, food after hunger, drink after thirst, sexual love after the absence of sexual love, the fatherly greeting after being away, the comfort and dryness of home after a ride in the rain, the warmth and peace and security of one's fireside after being among enemies. Unless there were contrast there might be satiety. He

Demelza said: 'It seems to me no man is wise enough if the woman is not wise enough.

Seeking perfection, Ross . . . in life it's dangerous, for it makes the less than perfect seem less than enough. Time is not indefinite.

I am not agitated. I am only agitated when someone advises me to reduce my diet.

Demelza was beginning to feel like a lion tamer who has been putting his pets through their paces and finds them getting out of hand.

the most important thing was to strike a balance: poverty and riches each in their own way caused unhappiness. With money, the way to be happy was to continue to have almost enough.

They have insisted so much on Equality, that there is no room left for Liberty and little for Fraternity.

Human beings were blind, crazy creatures, he thought, forever walking the tightrope of the present condemned to ever changing shifts and expedients to maintain the balance of existence, not knowing even as far ahead as tomorrow what the actions of today would bring. How could one plan a year ahead, how influence the imponderables?

But fear and fascination are yokefellows, oxen out of step but pulling in the same direction

Devi avere un ottimo controllo sui tuoi sentimenti visto che li rigiri come più ti piace. Vorrei esserne capace anch'io. Qual è il segreto?»

Ross provava un senso di perfetta soddisfazione. Riceveva amore e lo donava in egual misura, generosamente. In quel momento il loro rapporto non aveva alcun difetto.

So the next day I asked Dan how is it that Bubba can get killed, and what kind of half assed nature law would allow that. He thought about it for a while, and said, 'Well, I'll tell you, Forrest, all of these laws are not specially pleasing to us. But there is laws nonetheless. Like when a tiger pounce on a monkey in the jungle - bad for the money, but good for the tiger. That is just the way it is.

There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.

I've gotten more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.

The worst quarrels only arise when both sides are equally in the right and in the wrong.

All comes out even at the end of the day, and all will come out yet more even when all the days are ended.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me

It is where the balance quivers, and the proportions are veiled in mist, that the opportunity for world-saving decisions presents itself.

Logic, like science, must be the servant and not the master of man.