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Quotes About Balance

if you didn't let some things go, you'd spend your whole life fighting.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
You love being Ruby's mother, but loving Ruby does not stop you from wanting things for yourself.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Maybe this is selfish, but I don't want to love more than I am loved. And I don't want to be with someone who loves something or someone more than me.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I feel I am not suited for this life," Emily confessed. "I have devoted months to growing a single carrot and I have no time to read.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
There must be more to life than working and swimming and playing Go." "The boredom you speak of," Alabaster said. "It is what most of us call happiness.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
When she was forty, would she lament that she hadn't had sex with more people and partied more? But then, she didn't enjoy many people, and she had never gone to a party that she wasn't eager to leave. She hated being drunk, though she did enjoy smoking a joint every now and then. She liked playing games, seeing a foreign movie, a good meal. She liked going to bed early and waking up early.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
But the reason she was bourgeois was so she could make work that wasn't bourgeois. If she were cautious in her life, she could avoid compromising in her work.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The universe, he felt, was just—or if not just, fair enough.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
A good game, like Ichigo, was hard, but fair. The "unfair game" was life itself.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Enough is…Maybe this is selfish, but I don't want to love more than I am loved. And I don't want to be with someone who loves something or someone more than me.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Ant shrugged. "What's better than work?" He paused. "What's worse than work?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Kiedy? przekonasz si?, ?e ludzie z regu?y nie s? ani ca?kiem dobrzy, ani ?li. Mo?e w nich tkwi? odrobina dobra i ca?a masa z?a albo mog? by? z gruntu dobrzy z niewielk? domieszk? z?a
~ Gabrielle Zevin
and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Every word the right one and exactly where it should be.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
My actual daddy used to say that if you didn't let some things go, you'd spend your whole life fighting" -Anya/Mr. Balanchine
~ Gabrielle Zevin
When you have little, mine Aviva, you learn to take care. When you have much, you must accept that you could someday have little," she would say. "To take care of something is to love it.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
And sometimes, you get an extra life. But you might kill yourself trying to get the extra life, so it's not always worth it.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Their happiness is not her unhappiness. Unless it is. What if there is only an equal ratio of happiness to unhappiness in the world at any given time? She should be nicer.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
They know there's no such thing as perfect.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
It's like Oz and Kansas, if Dorothy could switch between them the whole time.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
What if there is only an equal ratio of happiness to unhappiness in the world at any given time?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Y si en un momento dado hubiese la misma proporción de felicidad e infelicidad en el mundo?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Where is room for love? All you have is fear and a to-do list.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The universe, he felt, was just—or if not just, fair enough. It might take your mother, but it might give you someone else in return.
~ Gabrielle Zevin