Quotes About Balance

In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.

Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred; since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other; only the indolence of human nature finds it so hard to pierce through to the other side.

how much he loved being alone except when he didn't, except when it got to be too much?

We each have our belssings and our curses. In the end it makes us equals.

You cannot see the beauty without facing the darkness. Remember this.

You may find that when you try to live in two worlds you are at home in neither of them.

Si tuvieras que elegir entre la cordura, tu vida tal como la recuerdas, antes que la verdadera inestabilidad, ¿qué elegirías como manera adecuada para vivir de un estudioso?

With effort, I brought my natural self-discipline to bear on each day, and each day calmed me further.

If all we do is immerse ourselves in the stories of bad people doing bad things to each other and the planet, we will sink under the weight of a lopsided story.

When it comes to death, nature is much more cruel to predators than predators are to their own prey

Vengeance is not justice; vengeance is not wise.

Normal' is a dryer setting

We should call it a draw. You tried to shoot me, I tried to poison you. As I said before Peabody, we are well matched.

I myself have no objection to comfort so long as it does not interfere with more important activities.

Olive's private view is that life depends on what she thinks of as big bursts and little bursts. Big bursts are things like marriage or children, intimacies that keep you afloat, but these big bursts hold dangerous, unseen currents. Which is why you need the little bursts as well: a friendly clerk at Bradlee's, let's say, or the waitress at Dunkin' Donuts who knows how you like your coffee. Tricky business, really.

Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we report to work.

Oh, my dear, relations are like drugs, - useful sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken in small quantities and seldom, but dreadfully pernicious on the whole, and the truly wise avoid them.

Not the least of my many blessings is that we have only one neighbour. If you have to have neighbours at all, it is at least a mercy that there should be only one; for with people dropping in at all hours and wanting to talk to you, how are you to get on with your life, I should like to know, and read your books, and dream your dreams to your satisfaction?

There is nothing so absolutely bracing for the soul as the frequent turning of one's back on duties.

Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things; possible to miss life in preparation for living.

I'm sure it's wrong to go on being good for too long, till one gets miserable. And I can see you've been good for years and years, because you look so unhappy

How glad I am I need not hurry. What a waste of life, just getting and spending.

Mr. Dawson's wife was really so very meek that I fear when the Day of Reckoning comes much of this tyranny will be forgiven him and laid to her account.

Sleep and food; they focussed everything. She must remember that. Next time anybody annoyed her, she would first go to sleep, and then eat eggs and bacon.