Quotes About Balance

L'arte è l'uomo sommato alla natura.

Does the man ever take any time off? Maybe he's a cyborg.

You can't stand having people around you, but then you go completely nuts when you're left all alone.

Life is the art of encounter, although there is so much mismatch in life.

Give me the discipline to get rid of the stuff that's not important, the freedom to savor the stuff that gives me joy, and the patience not to worry about the stuff that's messy but not hurting anybody.

Good writing is emotionally honest but does not get stuck in the emotion.

Love without a little fighting is like potatoes without salt.

money is something but not everything

some say that the world may end with fire but some say with ice.

Uneven numbers are the gods' delight.

To compare great things with small.

Women, like teeth, should be strong but not prominent.

ambivalent. To feel two ways about the same thing, 'Ambi-' from the Greek, meaning 'both.' 'valent,' from the Latin, meaning 'going.' Remember: Feeling ambivalent is a crucial step in the process of living thoughtfully. When we notice our ambivalence and examine it, then our minds can thrive.

Never again will I allow myself to be so caught up in the events of my world and my activities that I lose contact with my own heart and mind. All my achievements mean nothing if I lose myself in the process.

Can't run from hurt, Rose. You might miss some hurt, but you'll also miss all the joys of livin'.

So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.

To enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable, we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose-bush; we must train them, exactly and powerfully, here on the very spot.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

You can not gain peace by avoiding life.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

I am rooted, but I flow.

All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.

Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.

If nature has composed the human body so that in its proportions the seperate individual elements answer to the total form, then the Ancients seem to have had reason to decide that bringing their creations to full completion likewise required a correspondence bewteen the measure of individual elements and the appearance of the work as a whole.