Quotes About Balance

it was possible to live in harmony with mortals of all persuasions and remain vital and engaged with the world. These things he would neither sell nor offer for sale

You Mabden seem to think that happiness must be bought with misery... It is not easy for Vadhagh to understand that. We believe -- believed -- that happiness was a natural condition of reasoning beings.

He knew that for all his admission of Chaos he would be better able to do what he wished in a world ordered by some degree of Law. The

The lion does not constantly war with the leopard; the horse does not war with the cow; even among themselves they rarely kill each other, no matter how important the issue to them." "But they would," said Count Roldero, undaunted. "They would if they could anticipate events. They would if they could work out the rate at which the rival animal is consuming food, breeding, expanding its territory.

our home should be an oasis of peace and harmony for us in a troubled world

in Asian gardens you could look at rock and imagine water, you could gaze at a still pool and believe it had the hardness of rock.

There are those destroyed by unfairness and those who are not.

Just as no score relies on only one pitch or level of effort from musicians in the orchestra. Sometimes it relies on silence.

Birds prefer trees with dead branches,' said Caravaggio. 'They have complete vistas from where they perch. They can take off in any direction.

Many books open with an author's assurance of order. One slipped into their waters with a silent paddle...But novels commenced with hesitation or chaos. Readers were never fully in balance. A door a lock a weir opened and they rushed through, one hand holding a gunnel, the other a hat.

If anything she seems calm in this universe of hers.

With his wounds, his unbalance, the grey curls at the back of his neck. He had never imagined himself to be a man with a sense of age and wisdom. They had all grown older, but he still did not feel he had wisdom to go with his aging.

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I have to teach myself not to read too much into everything. It comes from too long having to read so much into hardly anything at all.

writer, I cannot remember who, spoke of a person having "a confusing grace." With an uncertainty alongside her warmth, that is how Emily has always been for me. You trusted her but she didn't trust herself. She was "good," but she was not that way in her own eyes. Those qualities still had not balanced out somehow, or agreed with each other. She

More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most.

It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.

Without such a thing as fast food, there would be no need for slow food

Okinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you are 80 percent full.

I hope whatever you're doing, / you're stopping now and then / and / not doing it at all.

If alcohol fuels our Dionysian tendencies, caffeine nurtures the Apollonian.

Eating what stands on one leg [mushrooms and plant foods] is better than eating what stands on two legs [fowl], which is better than eating what stands on four legs [cows, pigs, and other mammals].

As grandmothers used to say, 'Better to pay the grocer than the doctor

Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener.