Quotes About Balance

When you can't have both freedom and safety, boy, which do you choose?

Dalinar tried to stand, straight-backed and at atention, beneath the weight of it all. Unfortunately, he knew too well that if you locked your knees and stood too straight, you risked fainting. Why was it that trying to stand tall should make you so much more likely to fall?

At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different," Sazed said. "Different in shape, different in function, different in design. The man who looks at them without knowledge of their true nature might think them opposites, for one is meant to open, and the other to keep closed. Yet, upon closer examination, he might see that without one, the other becomes useless. The wise man then sees that both lock and key were created for the same purpose." Elend

The pact between Preservation and Ruin is a thing of gods, and difficult to explain in human terms. Indeed, initially, there was a stalemate between them. On one hand, each knew that only by working together could they create. On the other hand, both knew that they would never have complete satisfaction in what they created. Preservation would not be able to keep things perfect and unchanging, and Ruin would not be able to destroy completely.

Logically," Shallan said, "the bright side is the only side you can look on, because the other side is dark.

You have to learn when to care. And when to let go. You'll grow calluses.

All life worked in concert, he'd been taught in his youth. Everything but men, who refused their place. Who destroyed instead of added.

A knife can only be sharpened so far before all you are doing is wearing it away.

XinWey's Doctrine states that the most essential morality of mankind is to create the greatest amount of happiness among the greatest number of people while using the least amount of resources.

It was useful to have a reputation, so long as it didn't crush you.

You are striding atop a very thin wall, my friend. Loyalty is a difficult thing to divide.

But after spending ages walking around with everyone piling bricks in your arms, it can throw you off balance when someone removes a brick to carry for you.

It was strange, how easily and quickly protection could cause destruction. Sometimes, Vasher wondered if the two weren't really the same thing. Protect a flower, destroy the pests who wanted to feed on it. Protect a building, destroy the plants that could have grown in the soil. Protect a man. Live with the destruction he creates.

Where there are villains, there will be heroes

the lack of color in these places is what keeps people sick so long.

But the mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones." The

Venli attuned Anxiety, then Confidence, then Anxiety again.

The nature of the world is that when we create something, we often destroy something else in the process

Fair enough. Number two: Ask a woman how much she weighs. Then lift her. She'll have increased in weight. Feruchemists, every one.

O trabalho que fazemos - Prof disse - Não é viver. Nosso trabalho é matar. Nós deixamos pessoas comuns viverem a própria vida, encontrarem alegria nela, aproveitarem o nascer do sol e as nevadas. Nosso trabalho é permitir a elas que façam isso.

Every pasture needs three things," the woman said, voice changing, as if she were quoting from memory. "Flocks to grow, herdsmen to tend, and watchers at the rim.

There has to be a balance, Vin," he said. "Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be." He sighed. "But for now," he said, nodding to the side, "we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing. Saze

When you can't have both freedom and safety, what do you choose?