"Balance out the good things and the bad……" — Boethius
"Balance out the good things and the bad that have happened in your life and you will have to acknowledge that you are still way ahead. You are unhappy because you have lost those things in which you took pleasure? But you can also take comfort in the likelihood that what is now making you miserable will also pass away."
—
Boethius
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
36 Quotes by Boethius
Boethius has 36 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
-
If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
-
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content…
-
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
-
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in…
-
I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses…
-
Love binds people too, in matrimony's sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship.…
-
Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not…
-
One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
-
Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
-
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
-
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
See all 36 quotes by Boethius »
More Acknowledge Quotes
This quote is filed under Acknowledge Quotes,
one of 824 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or…
— Alan Ball
-
We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but…
— Mortimer Adler
-
When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together…
— Jeff Bridges
-
What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can…
— Tony Campolo
-
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but…
— Albert Camus
-
The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.
— Lois Capps
-
I play the baritone horn - which is like a mini tuba, and is the least sexy instrument you can…
— Steve Carell
-
If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my…
— John Cleese
-
Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of…
— Alan Cohen
-
Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your…
— Thomas Jefferson
-
I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind…
— Wernher von Braun
-
When we experience our fear, when we say the words "I am scared," we have the choice, the ability to…
— Paul Michael Glaser
See all 824 Acknowledge Quotes »