Quotes About Balance

Home is heaven and orgies are vile, But I like an orgy, once in a while.

At another year I would not boggle Except that when I jog I joggle.

How easy for those who do not bulge To not overindulge!

One master defines Zen as the art of feeling the polar star in the southern sky. Truth can be reached only through the comprehension of opposites.

We classify too much and enjoy too little.

Had God,then,peopled the whole universe with our kind?Did he perhaps in very truth make us in his image?It was incredible.To ask such questions proved that I had lost mental balance.

Socrates woke to the ideal of dispassionate intelligence, Jesus to the ideal of passionate yet self-oblivious worship. Socrates urged intellectual integrity, Jesus integrity of will. Each, of course, though starting with a different emphasis, involved the other.

How could I describe our relationship even to myself without either disparaging it or insulting it with the tawdry decoration of sentimentality? For this our delicate balance of dependence and independence, this coolly critical, shrewdly ridiculing, but loving mutual contact, was surely a microcosm of true community, was after all in its simple style an actual and living example of that high goal which the world seeks.

In every darkness, there is enough light for you to discover your path. In every light, there is abundant darkness for you to miss your path

Beanie I have a wife and kids. Do I seem like a happy guy to you, Frank

Beanie You think I like avoiding my wife and kids to hangout with nineteen year old girls everyday

Without balance, a life is no longer worth the effort.

Ka?dy z nas siedzi okrakiem na granicy mi?dzy w?asnym ?wiatem wewn?trznym a ?wiatem zewn?trznym i niebezpiecznie balansuje. To bardzo niewygodna pozycja i niewielu udaje si? utrzyma? równowag?.

We should have some other collection of knowledge, then, to balance that one out – its inverse, its inner lining, everything we don't know, all the things that can't be captured in any index, can't be handled by any search engine. For the vastness of these contents cannot be traversed from word to word – you have to step in between the words, into the unfathomable abysses between ideas.

S gledišta prirode nema korisnih i nekorisnih bi?a. To je samo glupavo razlikovanje koje primjenjuju ljudi." str. 156.

There are two points of view in the world: the frog's perspective and bird's-eye view. Any point in between just leads to chaos.

A Peloponnesian strait is what the earth gives to the water, and Crete what the water gives to the earth.

It is at Dusk that the most interesting things occur, for that is when simple differences fade away. I could live in everlasting Dusk.

People shouldn't be allowed to live so far away," he said at the front door. "What do you gain by hiding away from the world like this? It'll catch up with you anyway.

Moliwda knows that despite appearances, it is a happy marriage. Meaning: They each do their own thing.

The people aren't in a hurry, and don't compete against each other all the time. They don't go chasing after pipe dreams. They're happy with who they are and what they have.

Father Chmielowski, you seem to care more about books than you do about people,

God, God . . . He's just a good accountant with an eye on the debit as well as the credit column. There has to be a balance. One life is wasted, another is born . . .

There never was a man who said one word for woman but he said two for man and three for the whole human race.