Quotes About Balance

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

Living is a horizontal fall.

See that falcon? Hear those white-throated sparrows? Smell that skunk? Well, the falcon takes the sky, the white-throated sparrow takes the low bushes, the skunk takes the earth...I take the woods.

When the wolves are gone there will be too many caribou grazing the grass and the lemmings will starve. Without the lemmings the foxes and birds and weasels will die. Their passing will end smaller lives upon which even man depends, whether he knows it or not, and the top of the world will pass into silence.

That turtle is fearless. She has to be. She carries the Earth on her back.

The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

Le vent déracina celui de qui le ciel était voisin et dont les pieds touchaient à l'empire des mots.

Fiindc? era mereu în întârziere, sfâr?ea câteodat? prin a fi în avans.

Hoe snel de politieke en sociale veranderingen zich ook voltrekken, het belet u niet om te leven, aan andere dingen te denken of aan helemaal niets, te wandelen in de bossen, te zwemmen in zee, het theater of de opera te bezoeken, boeken te lezen, u te vermaken en te lachen. Terwijl stormen en omwentelingen om me heen razen, zet ik mijn weg gewoon verder. Tijdens de werken blijft de zaak geopend.

Cu mult mai mult decât ideile, ale c?ror combina?ii ?i sisteme se constituie prea adesea într-un echilibru instabil ?i ne transform? într-o clip?, circumspan?ele ?i temperamentele, care reprezint? ceva mai superficial ?i în acela?i timp mai profund, sunt cele care decid destinul oamenilor.

Inima î?i avea ra?iunile ei, ?i ra?iunea le cuno?tea.

Eu sunt mai aproape de tata: el î?i punea speran?ele într-o schimbare bazat? pe amintire. M? împart, ca el, între aceste dou? lumi apuse, pline de str?lucire ?i de for??: schimbarea ?i amintirea. ?i, între una ?i alta, refuz s? aleg.

I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.

But practicalities have to be tended to, even during emergencies.

Mama and Nathan lean on me a lot, but they give me a lot of rope, too. Maybe too much." "Maybe," I say. "I can shorten it for you.

C'était si simple, à l'ancienne façon : l'homme, et, tout autour, mais sous lui, les bêtes, les plantes; ça marchait bien, comme ça. On tue un lièvre, on cueille un fruit; une pêche, c'est du jus sucré dans la bouche, un lièvre c'est un grand plat débordant de viande noire. Après, on s'essuie la bouche et on fume une pipe sur le seuil.

Il faut se moquer, en tout cas se méfier des bâtisseurs d'avenir. Surtout quand pour bâtir l'avenir des hommes à naître, ils ont besoin de faire mourir les hommes vivants. L'homme n'est la matière première que de sa propre vie.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.