Quotes About Balance

Para tornar a realidade suportável, todos temos de cultivar em nós certas pequenas loucuras.

Siamo tutti costretti, per renderci sopportabile la realtà, a coltivare dentro di noi qualche piccola follia.

Even in cases where the multiplication of his modest personal advantages by his self-esteem would not suffice to assure a man the dose of happiness, superior to that accorded to others, which is essential to him, envy is always there to make up the balance.

age, when we add to the pan that holds our suffering a physical pain which we have acquired and have let grow, then, instead of the courageous solution that would have carried the day at one-and-twenty, it is the other, grown too heavy and insufficiently balanced, that crushes us down at fifty.

In a world thronged with monsters and with gods, we are barely conscious of tranquillity.

whenever I had read for too long and was in a mood for conversation, the friend to whom I would be burning to say something would at that moment have finished indulging himself in the delights of conversation, and wanted nothing now but to be left to read undisturbed.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their warfare ensure the continuity of existence.

The immobility of that thin face, like that of a sheet of paper subjected to the colossal pressure of two atmospheres, seemed to me to be held in balance by two infinities which converged on her without meeting, for she held them apart. And indeed, as we looked at her, Robert and I, neither of us saw her from the same side of the mystery.

Our parallel lives resemble paths bordered at intervals by flower-vases placed symmetrically but not facing each other.

Stiamo tutti costretti, per renderci sopportabile la realtà, a coltivare dentro di noi qualche piccola follia.

The glutton usually realizes that gout is ever ready to pounce, and that alcohol is bad for him. But possible disaster weighs light in the scale against certain pleasure.

Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue.

May your course not run from one end to the other; for such a course does not exist; but may every step you take mark a redressed projection. With your left foot you shall wipe out the footprint of your right foot.

With your left foot you shall wipe out the footprint of your right foot.

How far can you compromise without seriously violating your identity

Si mucho te contentas con el orden, se dice, te vas convirtiendo en piedra.

Aunque se desborde, la literatura es siempre un orden.

Una pareja se compone de dos personas autónomas, ¡no es una amalgama única, por Dios!

What dangers that word entails. How far can you compromise without seriously violating your identity, without permanently losing self-respect?

Perfection is too hard a burden to impose on nature.

La Biblia enseña sabiamente que hay un tiempo para todo. Hay un tiempo para sufrir y llorar, pero también hay un tiempo para levantarse nuevamente y vivir.

What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.

The invention of the clock has altered human pleasure. There are minutes and seconds in the day now, and not enough for love.