Quotes About Balance

Sometimes, I worry that there's not enough room in my brain for both my dreams and reality, that I'm a hard drive with limited gigabytes and one day I won't be able to maintain the firewall between them.

I feel what's in you, and there's nothing light about it. I know the dark side. I live there, for fuck's sake. Emotion shapes power. Terrible power comes at a terrible price. Shut it the fuck down and get your bloody emotions in check, Ms. Lane.

Power is not good or evil. It is what it is in the hands of the wielder.

Boundaries were necessary for a successful relationship. Most relationships aborted in the boundary-defining stage. Not because people demanded what they needed. But because they didn't, then got resentful about it.

Devil and Angel: he, seduced by her lightness; she, tempted by his darkness. Each drawn to what they lacked.

Fire to his ice, frost to her flame.

As long as women walk this earth, I'll be a happy man. If they ever get wiped out, I'm done.

Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you.

Lines are thin. So easy to cross. Impossible to uncross.

I just go with it, focus on whichever feeling I have most often and try to keep my mouth shut when it's the other. But most folks got Id and Ego living on different floors in their head's house, in different rooms, and they've locked all the doors between them, and nailed sheets of plywood over that, because they think they're, like, sworn enemies that can't hang together.

Because I could see the truth. Sometimes it's there in the flaws. And other times it's there in too much perfection.

I have to balance the scales and there's a lot weighing in against me.

Old witch passed on a few good things but they'll never counter all the evil she did.

Death on her left. Devil on her right.

The world can wait. I can't.

Being needed is toxic." "It's good to be needed. Means you're important." "It means there's an imbalance of power. There was no shortage of life-suckers before the walls fell. You're not responsible for the world just because you're more capable." " Ã¢â'¬â"¢Course I am. That's what more capable folks do.

They are each other's opposite, although, I suppose, not antithesis. That would be summer to winter, autumn to spring. Yet as they stand near each other, Winter, so icy and pale, Autumn so dusky and warm, it drives home to me how elemental the Fae are, the embodiment of the seasons themselves.

Fuego para su frío, hielo para su fuego

A part of him wanted to cram his reality down her throat, forcing her to accept him, with no excuses offered. A wiser part of him, the man he'd used to be, warned against such ruthlessness.

Sun, moon and stars

Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you.

I can't not misstep. I have feet.

Too much falsely inflates. Too little underprepares.

I take a being and make its molecules rest. How is that not creation? It was one thing and is another. Once it ate, now it is eaten. Did I not create sustenance for another with its new state? Can there be any act of creation that does not first destroy? Villages fall. Cities rise. Humans die. Life springs from the soil wherein they lie. Is not any act of destruction, should time enough pass, an act of creation?" Conversations with Sinsar Dubh, Shadowfever - K.M.Moning