Quotes About Balance

Many charismatics do not know the difference between legalism and self-discipline.

It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of the pendulum's swing, at a point where it never rests, not in the dull perpendicular mean where it dangles in the end like a windless flag, but at an angle, nearer one extreme than another? If only a miracle could stop the pendulum at an angle of sixty degrees, one would believe the truth was there.

What was most evil in him needed her: it couldn't get along without goodness.

You don't think nature has accidents, do you?

All things in this grand universe are linked to one another by invisible threads, even those things that appear as opposites.

Key amongst these is the Newton's Cradle, which we

Ah, children, pity level-crossing keepers, pity lock-keepers – pity lighthouse-keepers – pity all the keepers of this world (pity even school teachers), caught between their conscience and the bleak horizon…

How little you know how you've kept my balance.

sanity is really limiting.

human or animal

Throughout my life, I sought power and profit for myself, for my rate. Now, at long last, I think I understand the meaning of a crime against the Mantle. After this, no need to seek balance. I will await my penance here.

named Wendell Berry, often used by citizens of Thistledown. The slate's simple

Your happiness is the most important thing in this life. If you are not happy, you are of no use to anyone else.

Busy" is another word for "asshole.

I wouldn't have thought that I was heavy enought to lift you. Leverage, Stone said. You just need to provide... Leverage

The price of abundance is restraint.

There's no universal tally of good and evil, balancing right and wrong. The Christians with their God-has-a-plan fantasy, the Hindus with their karmic balance . . . it's all wishful thinking. Primitive religious impulse. Linus's damned security blanket.

Things always come back into balance, though, right? Eventually." Dad goes very still, eerily so considering his disease. "Eventually. Balance came back in 1918 after twenty million deaths. It came back in 1945 after seventy million. It's getting the pendulum back to the midpoint that's the killer. And right now it's being pushed hard right, all around the world. The last gasp of Ozymandias—once more, with feeling.

I have resolved a simple thing: I will do those things which make me happy today, and which I can also live with ten years from now.

Justice is God's business. Nothing ever balances out equal in this world. Only in Heaven.

have resolved a simple thing: I will do those things which make me happy today, and which I can also live with ten years from now.

You walk between gods and men. Your choices are only between despair and hope!

Master Yoda was wrong. If the Jedi stood for nothing but seeking balance in the Force, then [Anakin] had no business fighting the Yuuzhan Vong...were the actions of the Yuuzhan Vong, however evil they seemed, in an of themselves worth opposing if they had no affect on the Force?

The moment between breaths Is the balance of the Force. Between life and death. Rest and action. Serenity and passion. Hope and despair. —