Quotes About Balance

God gave us hands to create, not destroy his world.

Sí, acabo de comprender, mi buen aprendiz. El dinero se necesita, ya que el mundo está así montado. Pero el dinero vale por lo que da a cambio y no se le debe amar en sí.

El pánico es un sentimiento que en más de una ocasión reúne la energía precisa que, por lo común, no llega a infundir la razón.

Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a mechanistic obsession. It becomes a bore.

Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

Das Leben ist zu kurz und Proust zu lang...

Within every one of us, there lives both a Don Quixote and a Sancho Panza to whom we hearken by turns; and though Sancho most persuades us, it is Don Quixote that we find ourselves obliged to admire.

Na sociedade, cada qual deve dar e receber. Se esse homem não dá muita coisa, é, sem dúvida, porque não recebeu o bastante.

We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

God created for you two eyes and two ears but one tongue so that you say half what you see and hear.

God created two noses: one smells loyalty and the other smells treasury and the mind between them to judge.

Two measures of wine send the doctor away, and four brings him back.

Does our reading life balance or subvert our waking life?

This explains the importance of staying just outside your comfort zone: you need to continually push to keep the body's compensatory changes coming, but if you push too far outside your comfort zone, you risk injuring yourself and actually setting yourself back.

The state of being frantic, overextended and distracted drives people away rather than drawing them in and inviting them to the refuge of your company.

Aux yeux de niveau d'eau de niveau d'air de terre et de feu.

Ne pas alourdir ses pensées du poids de ses souliers

Ninguém é sábio por inteiro, mas quem se resignaria a ser totalmente louco?

He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.

Guitarists spend half their time tuning and the other half playing out of tune.