Quotes About Balance

It's a lot easier to be crazy or mad than to just get on with living.

Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath.

It's good to be open-minded, but not so open that your brains fall out. -Jacob Needleman

Everyone has a doctor in him; we just have to help him in his work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. . . . To eat when you are sick is to feed your sickness. —Hippocrates

Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade

It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it, I can only say, if you have never known what it is to be utterly betrayed and abandoned, you cannot know how close it is.

Le fait est que, de renoncement en renoncement, Anne se sent depuis quelques temps devenir de plus en plus riche. C'est comme si chacun des espoirs, auxquels naguère elle se cramponnait, avait été une espèce d'amarre , la fixant et l'entravant; et, à chaque amarre rompue, ou bien lâchée, quelque chose en elle bascule, dérive, retrouve un meilleur équilibre. (p217)

Nowhere in this novel is exploitation, pain for the sake of pain, or needless cruelty. The entire novel manages to balance its elegant philosophical concerns with also being an amazing feat of human tenderness.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him.

me. I don't want to have to feel grateful all the time.

And there's a thin line between genius and insanity, isn't there?

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living

Fast nights make long days

No one stops to think, though—that maybe there is a reason for the darkness. Maybe people have to be reminded of it—of its power. At night, we go to sleep against the darkness. And if we wake up before morning, a lot of times we're afraid. We need it all though—the darkness and the light.

You'll never regret eating blueberries or working up a sweat.

Écrire sans point d'ancrage, sans point de mire, risque absolu, espace ouvert… précipice de la langue, laconisme de funambule»

The primary element in any civilization is a stable relation between man and his environment. When man becomes the plaything of abstract decisions, a civilization can no longer be created.

Il faut avoir l'esprit dur et le coeur sensible

What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant.

Ainsi le raisonnement avance-t-il droit sur ses deux pieds boiteux

Nu este vorba de o fug?, ci de o re-cadrare, pe care o g?sesc foarte s?n?toas?. Sunt mai prezent în prezent ?i las viitorul la locul s?u, cu sau f?r? mine.

Este pu?in provocator, bineîn?eles, dar putem ast?zi s? consider?m omul ca celula canceroas? a organismului Terra. O celul? care prolifereaz? asigurându-?i dezvoltarea în detrimentul altora, distrugându-le pentru a-?i asigura propria sa dezvoltare.

I had learned in the last two years that the more demanding the basic needs of self-preservation grow, the closer one comes to nature.