Quotes About Balance

The moment of the rose and the moment of the yew-tree are of equal duration.

What life have you if you have not life together?

We're all of us ill in one way or another: We call it health when we find no symptom Of illness. Health is a relative term.

Darkness reminds us of light.

If your enemy comes to speak bearing a sword, open your door to him and speak, but keep your own sword at hand. If he comes to you empty-handed, greet him the same way. But if he comes to you bearing gifts, stand on your walls and cast stones down on him.

Theo knew enough about women and their clothes to recognize she was trying to strike an appropriate balance between... what? Between liking him and hating him? Between wanting to look good and not wanting to look too available? Just because he knew a mixed message when he saw one didn't mean he knew exactly which messages were being mixed

Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are only termite hills left but no bush?

Make Philosophy your evening guest, but do not let her stay the night.

Men do not manage well with too much peace. Someone will find a quarrel.

Always choosing one side of the coin, instead of simply choosing the coin itself. Both have so strongly rejected the other's side that they will regret it one day.

One should treasure those humdrum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered

Do not brood too much over what went before or worry too much over what is to come. Between those two is everything that matters--all that is.

We are all children of both the good and evil that has gone before us.

In the West we are driven by an extreme form of guilt -- if you are not seen to be working like a dog, you're perceived as being slothful.

Two reeds drink from the same stream. One is hollow, the other is sugarcane. —MOROCCAN PROVERB

Focusing on the good does not mean ignoring the bad, but rather the understanding that the most effective way to eradicate the bad is to do good.

Time-use may be the determinant of well-being that is the most susceptible to improvement.

Time is a zero-sum game, a limited resource. Life is too short to do only what we have to do; it is barely long enough to do what we want to do.

Para vivir una vida plena y gratificante —una vida feliz—, tenemos que permitirnos experimentar toda la gama de emociones humanas. En otras palabras, tenemos que concedernos el permiso para ser humanos.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. He had used the John Burroughs quote as a mantra

handcuffs, no pistol-whipping . . .

Briar: They never tell you some things. They tell you mages have wonderful power and they learn all kinds of secrets. Nobody ever mentions that some secrets you don't ever want to learn. Rosethorn: All you can do is learn good to balance the bad. Learn and do all the good within your reach. Then, if you wake in a sweat, you have something to set against the dream.

Reflect as if you have all of time, even when time is short.

That's all this job is, Daine, she explained. Trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. And it will only get worse, not better.