Quotes About Balance

They had no years of lean harvest, when they must scrape the bottom of their stores, and no good years either, that they might learn to save.

Es posible domesticar a una serpiente para que coma de tu mano, pero nadie le va a quitar nunca el gusto por morder.

That is how it works, Circe. I tell Father that my sorcery was an accident, he pretends to believe me, and Zeus pretends to believe him, and so the world is balanced. It is your own fault for confessing. Why you did that, I will never understand.

Whatever you do, I wanted to say, do not be too happy. It will bring fire down on your head.

They are not naturally fools, it is only that they are caught between two scorpions.

I moved straight-backed, as if a great brimming bowl rested in my hands. The dark liquid rippled as I walked, always at the point of overflow, yet never flowing.

There is no law that gods must be fair,

Yes," he said. "That is how it works, Circe. I tell Father that my sorcery was an accident, he pretends to believe me, and Zeus pretends to believe him, and so the world is balanced. It is your own fault for confessing. Why you did that, I will never understand.

Sentí de nuevo esa sensación de puro equilibrio donde el mundo se había detenido y todo estaba a la espera.

Like a good many men, artists or not, Stone liked to go out with ravishing women who were some kind of crazy, but preferred to go home to somebody sane. With the possible exception of Pablo Picasso, this pattern of behavior is not sustainable for anyone in the long term.

Too much of a good thing can be taxing.

I saw what a mess a lot of people could make of their lives when they're smitten. Some of them go temporarily insane. They find a person who they think holds the key to their happiness-the only key to their happiness... My work has always been my greatest happiness

She soon called a halt to the work. Judy's great success was that she stopped her helpers before they got tired.

There's a thin line between love and hate, and it's easy to cross.

Oakmoss, patchouli, bergamot, labdanum, in the balance you constantly shift and nuance like a conductor, but dancing on top of that tonka, a hint of leather and a cheeky reference to Miss Dior, with some carnation. I think there will be ambergris and sandalwood in the dry-down, and I can't wait to see how it smells in the middle of the night.

hiring a home health aide, who wound up spending nearly as much time and energy helping Joe as she did Laura.

A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.

Trump seemed to have learned a lesson from his travails: his personal brand mattered more than what was on his balance sheet, the projection of strength and success was more significant than any actual fact set underneath.

The psyche is divided into consciousness and the unconscious and the latter serves to compensate the conscious attitude. Whenever the conscious attitude is too one-sided, its unconscious opposite manifests itself autonomously (Greek: auto=self, nomos=law, a law unto itself) to rectify the imbalance. It does this internally through powerful dreams and images, or it can pathologize in disease.

I think beauty neither obscures truth nor reveals it. Likewise, it leads neither toward justice nor away from it.

So far as I can tell, most worthwhile pleasures on this earth slip between gratifying another and gratifying oneself.

On one hand, the Aristotelian, perhaps evolutionary need to put everything into categories– predators, twilight, edible – on the other, the need to pay homage to the transitive, the flight, the great soup of being in which we actually live.

We may become more used to jumping into flight, but that doesn't mean we have done with all perches.

It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.