Quotes About Balance

Everything kills everything else in some way.

everything kills everything else in some way. Fishing kills me exactly as it keeps me alive. The boy keeps me alive, he thought. I must not deceive myself too much.

We are very serious so we can make very strong jokes.

Fall for them, but don't let them ruin you.

You have to emend yourself. A man who doesn't sleep cannot live.

Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts.

If a husband works until six he gets only a little drunk on the way home and does not waste too much. If he works only until five he is drunk every night and one has no money. It is the wife of the working man who suffers from this shortening of hours.

You oughtn't to ever do anything too long.

No pleasure in anything if you mouth it up too much.

I drink a little now once in a while, just to drive the wolf out of the room

leer servía para no pensar en el trabajo ni preocuparse hasta el momento de reemprenderlo.

The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.

I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

Write drunk; edit sober.

He missed a lot in his life. -That no one ever knows. Everything in life has it's compensation.

Todo hombre que empieza a vivir de una manera seria por dentro, empieza también a llevar una vida más sencilla por fuera

The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water'.

Quando le cose vanno bene e sei tu a sentirti giù di corda, un bicchiere può parti sentir meglio. Ma quando sono le cose ad andar male e tu bene, un bicchiere non può far altro che chiarirti ulteriormente il concetto.

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.

William James, in his "Talks to Teachers," derided that "ceaseless frenzy" in which we always feel that we "should be doing something else." The ceaseless frenzy, the race through life, are symptomatic of the numbing of spirituality.

The remedy for "keeping something to oneself" is not "letting it all hang out," which is a modern-day perversion of pervasiveness.

Someone once asked Dad: "But what do you want to save time for? What are you going to do with it?" "For work, if you love that best," said Dad. "For education, for beauty, for art, for pleasure." He looked over the top of his pince-nez. "For mumblety-peg, if that's where your heart lies.

As Steven Strogatz says in his book, Sync, "For reasons we don't yet understand, the tendency to synchronize is one of the most pervasive drives in the universe, extending from atoms to animals, from people to planets.

Peace comes when you stop trying to control the world around you and instead take responsibility for the world within you.