Quotes About Balance

Great leaders sometimes need to appear unbalanced, he thought: "What seems 'balanced' and 'safe' in a crisis is often the most risky.

If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels. —Tennessee Williams

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

L'ideale è un cauto ottimismo. Ma nel mio caso si tratta piuttosto di cauto pessimismo.

Husband and wife have no time left to spend together. Marriage took away our one reason for getting married.

Even when we are screaming and throwing things, we are friends. Who is the man and who is the woman? Sometimes neither of us knows. The marriage is androgynous -- like the closest friendships. It will keep.

C'est une maladie d'être optimiste? Non, c'est une maladie de l'être trop. L'excès devient pathologique.

Il faut du bruit pour entendre le silence .

Yo habré trabajado mucho toda la vida, pero he trabajado despacio, tomándome todo el tiempo del mundo. No buscaba hacer números o ver desfilar clientes, no. Ir despacio, ése es el secreto de la felicidad.

Cu cât corpul devine mai greu, cu atât mintea este mai uÈ™oar?.

PoÈ›i fi st?pân pe ceea ce gândeÈ™ti, dar niciodat? pe ceea ce simÈ›i.

La felicità non consiste nel mettersi al riparo dalla sofferenza, ma di integrarla al tessuto della nostra esistenza.

Yani bu durum sebebiyle anormal olan ne olursa olsun, biz ikimiz normaliz.

On aime toujours trop quand on aime vraiment. L'exces est de rigueur. ( Don Juan ) Votre Diablerie, vous ne pouvez dire cela. Tout est pour le pire dans le pire des mondes possibles. ( Le majordome dans L'Ecole du diable )

J'aurais travailler lentement, en prenant bien mon temps, je ne voulais pas faire du chiffre, ou voir défiler les clients, non. La lenteur, c'est ça, le secret du bonheur.

Nevoia de a înÈ›elege nu e doar o înclinaÈ›ie c?tre raÈ›ionalitate, ci nevoia de a g?si liniÈ™tea identificând tenebrele, punând ordine în haos.

Happiness isn't about hiding from suffering, but about integrating it into the fabric of our existence.

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness.

Freedom does not mean license.

If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.

The deepest yearning of human beings seems to be a constellation in which the two poles (motherliness and fatherliness, female and male, mercy and justice, feeling and thought, nature and intellect) are united in a synthesis, in which both sides of the polarity lose their antagonism and, instead, color each other.

The polarity between the male and female principles exists also within each man and each woman. Just as physiologically man and woman each have hormones of the opposite sex, they are bisexual also in the psychological sense. They carry in themselves the principle of receiving and of penetrating, of matter and of spirit. Man—and woman—finds union within himself only in the union of his female and his male polarity. This polarity is the basis for all creativity.

In the view of the wise, Heaven is man and Earth woman: Earth fosters what Heaven lets fall.

If humanity continues to consume natural resources irresponsibly and disrupt the balance of nature that provides human life, it will be inevitable that we will encounter the catastrophe of total extinction in less than a hundred years.