Quotes About Balance

Think selfishly,' Daine said, trying to make these arrogant two-leggers see what she meant. 'You can't go on this way. Soon you will have no forests to get wood from or to hunt game in. You poison water you drink and bathe and fish in. Even if you keep the farms, they won't be enough to feed you if the rest of the valley's laid waste. You'll starve. Your people will starve- unless you buy from outside the valley, and that's fair expensive. You'll ruin Dunlath.

It was like trying to balance on a pair of knife blades. Who had thought of this mad form of travel in the first place? And why had no one locked them up before they passed their dangerous ideas on to others?

It was time to work on his trees, to brew medicines and weed the rooftop plants before he forgot who he really was in all this running around. (Briar)

Usually, she liked to be big and strong, it helped her to handle iron, brass and bronze. Still, now and then she wanted a little elegance...

An account has come due. Debts must be settled.

Mercurio's profound graveness tottered on the brink of extreme uncontrolled hilarity.

Eating and sleeping are the two periods in your life where writers get a pass for not reading. Check that. Only sleeping.

To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell. —BUDDHIST PROVERB

Not evil. Not any more evil than the colored trees are good.Evil and good reside in the heart, not in trees and water.

I believe in God because only an idiot can look at the complex balance of nature and believe that has not been designed. Believe it or not, but some people still believe that a watch can make itself out of sand if you just give it enough time. That's what they call evolution. And you wonder why I am cynical. From my point of view you have to be a fool not to be cynical.

When you step away from it all, you lose perspective.

You'll have to learn to control your emotions. They're new, like achild's now, bursting with passion. Never let them fade, or part of you will die. But they cal also destroy you. Hold them dear, but don't let them take hold of you.

People reveal their true character when they're off center.

What falls but never breaks; what breaks but never falls?

They all seemed to function in it, but to say they controlled it would be wrong...The chaos controlled them.

Everything we say, do, and think, aligns us with darkness or light, love or grievance. Thus everything is a spiritual practice, whether we are aware of it or not. We are constantly, in every moment, aligning with one way of being or another. The choice is ours to make each moment of the day.

For the sake of the world, they had to cling to what they knew, not what their emotions demanded from them.

We need rules that limit our leaders' powers more than we need rules that limit our rights.

If you don't think too good, don't think too much.

The highly sensitive person has an important mission, which is to serve as a balance to the more aggressive behavior of some of the non-HSPs who advocate a less than nurturing policy toward humans, animals, and Mother Nature.

Bad things always happen when an animal is overselected for any single trait. Nature will give you a nasty surprise.

In dealing with autism, I'm certainly not saying we should lose sight of the need to work on deficits, But the focus on deficits is so intense and so automatic that people lose sight of the strengths.

Being negative is natural and being 100 percent positive takes work.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.