Quotes About Balance

Birds know, better than humans, not to spoil the nest.

You're burning the candle at both ends, Kid . . . (He moves from the table across the room.) And in my humble opinion the light ain't worth it.

What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.

Take it easy man, but take it.

If you don't smoke cannabis, you may spend your evening balancing your checking account. If you do smoke cannabis you may spend your evening contemplating the causes of the Greek Renaissance.

If nature represents a principle of economy, then culture surely must exemplify the principle of innovation through excess.

Love turns work into rest.

Every effort should be made to meet the needs of the nondisordered children in the family, but spouses have the same needs, too. The need for one-on-one quality time between spouses is often overlooked. Indeed, after each day spent trying to meet the needs of all children in the family as well as working a job and attending to all of life's other chores, it is most often the husband or wife who gets ignored. Parents need time away from the concerns of the world to focus just on each other.

Writers need their writing; they need their imaginary worlds in order to find piece in, or make sense of, the real world.

Because life's dictates did not allow for quick and easy distinctions between right and wrong or good and bad. Choices were made between shades of gray, and there was healing and harm to be weighed on both sides of each.

It takes everything I've got to offer, but not more than I wish to give.

Remember—we seek a balance in all things.

We all struggle with what's right and wrong, Paxon. That's the nature of our lives. We have to figure out what we can live with, and hope that what we do to bring it about doesn't exact a cost that's too high. We have to decide where to draw the line.

When a massive failure to preserve the integrity of an ecosystem occured, no one escaped the consequences.

There was no hurry. Time was something he had as much of as he needed.

Perhaps you should remember that the road runs both ways.

For evil left to itself, Valeman, does not simply perish; it thrives. Evil contained is not evil destroyed.

We're all stuck in this world, and none of us made it the way it is. We don't like much about it, and I think if you want to live in it with some sense of responsibility, you have to find ways to keep it this side of becoming too insane.

from nature what they needed to improve their lives without regard for how it might damage nature herself

to realize it leads directly to extinction. Sooner or later nature will have no more to give them.

We are keepers of the peace, not soldiers.

As with all things evil, he waited until the balance of hatred, envy, greed—the human failings common to all the races—outweighed the goodness and kindness, and then he struck.

Nature is a bottom-line concept.

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