Quotes About Balance

Interdependency is healthy; dependency is not.

Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better for our love, and still our love be sweeter for our work.

She said, "You're a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?" "In compassion. Because of necessity." Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar's hands. "The same way you carry water.

The world stood pinned on two thorns. One was ugliness. One was beauty. The truth did not lie in the middle or at either extreme. The truth encompassed both. *

a friend told me that in a good marriage, nobody wins." Matthew frowned, nibbling his thumbnail, noticing she'd sidestepped his question about the wards quite neatly. "I'm not sure I understand what you mean." "A marriage is a state of dynamic tension. It works as long as nobody gets the upper hand and keeps it." She

When the world is ending sometimes you have to save the party until there's time to bake.

Sometimes synchronicity works.

Danilaw's underlying genetic users meant his own emotional balance could stray from perfection and his inherited neurochemistry meant that his rightminding fell in need of more frequent-than-usual maintenance. Not enough to cause a social disadvantage, or free him from Obligations-but enough to make him wish sometimes it might.

Where the road was broken, its edges had cracked and meltd where the Technomancer had pulled her Tower from the earth, interrupting its symmetry.

Without women in a position to protect them, gentle males would find it rough going in a society dominated by stud males and hormonally driven aggression.

I was too overwhelmed-and too focused on my job and its dangers-to let myself feel overawed.

I was asking a sick plant for emotional labor so I could find the courage to ask them things I knew would hurt them greatly. But I was a sick mammal, so I suppose it evened out.

this community would never be what I wanted. Too many other people wanted it to be different things. It would always have to be a compromise between my ideals and theirs.

I made a grab for the fabric of the universe and hauld myself into a stable orientation.

Truth, but not very much of it, suitable for paddling your toes in.

I've spent more of my life in bed than anybody needs to.

I try not to glow too much at the praise of Gabe. I'm somewhat attached to him.

We might have been two opposite halves of one thing, complementary and conflicted.

Farweather just wanted what she wanted. She did what she felt like doing. She didn't care who got hurt, and she didn't feel social responsibilit to mitigate the harm, or seek compromise, or balance her needs against the needs of others.

Who would have thought three separate peaces so irreconcilable?

When Samael uncrossed his arms, it was to stand hipshot, balanced one the toes of one bare foot and the heel of the other. He had simulated silver toenail polish.

any tool can also be a weapon of oppression as easily as it can be an implement of construction.

I see a lot of people who are addicted to learning. What they need is a healthy dose of doing!

Don't let your habits become handcuffs