Quotes About Balance

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. Foer, Jonathan Safran (2006-04-04). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel (Kindle Locations 1882-1883). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.

I'm sorry for my inability to let the unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.

She was the tree and also the river flowing away from the tree[.]

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment

There's a Hasidic proverb: 'While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Reduce what you have. Decrease what you want.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.

truth, justice, temperance, and

Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.

when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.

There never was a war between religion and empirical science, but there is a war between religion and

it's not how much you work, but how working so much makes you feel that counts. And how I felt was iserable.

everything comes and goes; pleasure moves on too early and trouble leaves too slow

They say the Lord never gives us more than we can bear. This is only true of money and cleavage.

Ele e o marido da Senhora Dona Flor, cuida de tua virtude, de tua honra, de teu respeito humano. Ele e tua face matinal, eu sou tua noite, o amante para o qual nao tem nem jeito nem coragem. Somos teus dois maridos, tuas duas faces, teu sim teu nao. Para ser feliz, precisas de nos dois. Quando era eu so, tinhas meu amor e te faltava tudo, como sofrias! Quando foi so ele, tinhas de um tudo, nada te faltava, sofrias ainda mais. Agora sim, es dona Flor inteira como deves ser

No hay pérdida que no implique una ganancia

No te interrumpas… Date permiso… Date tiempo… Date lugar… Date todo…

Si para estar con otro yo tengo que renunciar a ser yo mismo, la cosa no va a funcionar.

No nos vamos a quedar sin posibilidad de amar a los otros si nos amamos a nosotros mismos

para mí, un sinónimo de salud mental y podría definirse

A la realidad le gustan las simetrías y los leves anacronismos

Art is fire plus algebra.

Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms