Quotes About Balance

Former president Bill Clinton (born in 1946 and a Yale Law Student of Charles Reich) describes this divide: "If you look back on the sixties and, on balance, you think there was more good than harm, then you're probably a Democrat. If you think there was more harm than good, you're probably a Republican.

Arbeiten und lieben — to work and to love; were these not Freud's measures of success?

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

Mis desequilibradas palabras son el lujo de mi silencio.

I've always liked putting things in their places. I think it's my only true calling. By ordering things I create and understand at the same time ... Ordering is finding the best form.

At this moment" is a rare thing because only sometimes do I step with both feet on the land of the present; usually one foot slides toward the past, the other slides toward the future. And I end up with nothing.

What an effort I make to be myself. I struggle against a tide in a boat with just enough room for my two feet in a perilous and fragile balance.

Entonces se defendía de la muerte viviendo menos, gastando poco de su vida para que no se le acabara.

Things went somehow so good that were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting.

I always liked to arrange things. I guess it's my only real vocation. By putting things in order, I create and understand at the same time.

As coisas estavam de algum modo tão boas que podiam se tornar muito ruins porque o que amadurece plenamente pode apodrecer.

Hay que saber sentir, pero también hay que saber cómo dejar de sentir, porque si la experiencia es sublime puede volverse igual de peligros.

A grande bondade do santo – é que para ele tudo é igual .

Madness borders the cruelest good sense.

I said to a friend: -- Like has always asked too much of me. She replied: -- But don't forget that you also ask too much of life.

Quanto a mim, estou +- O.K. Não consegui no entanto soltar minhas rédeas. Planos, programas, consciência, vigilância. O que vale é que misturada a tudo isso, está a vida que não pára.

Me quedo perpleja como una criatura al ver que incluso en el amor hay que tener sentido común y noción de la medida.

A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.

We have demonized the dark along with half of what is good within us, and half of the human race besides.

Everything walks—leaves, stones, rivers. Nothing is still.

When you understand where the words dirty and holy intersect, you will have found the secret to everything.