Quotes About Balance

Stone, sea, forest, city—and every creature that ever lived—all share the same struggle. Being resists unbeing. Order wars against the chaos of dissolution, of disorder.

It must be taken as given that a man who happens to be the world's most powerful, most terrible, most deadly sorceror, must have a woman at his side. But it does not follow, my children, that a woman of similar proportions requires a man at hers.

A book of prophesy opens the doors. You need a second book to close it. Tanno Spiritwalker Kimloc

Purest light will blind as surely as absolute darkness.

Kneels? Falters? Look to the night sky, foolish man, and gauge the victor in the contest between Dark and Light.

Creation demands destruction. Survival demands that something else fails to survive. No existence was truly benign.

To live simply was to evade the worries that came with complexity. This end was achieved at the expense, alas, of intelligence.

As the middle son, I of course represent the perfect balance. Wit, physical prowess and a multitude of talents to match my natural grace. When combined with my extraordinary ability to waste it all, you see, standing before you, the exquisite culmination.

For the wise, even joy was tinged with sorrow.

Even order needs freedom, lest it solidify and becomes fragile

There is power in nature,' Ilgast replied, 'and what is often forgotten is that nature lies within us as much as it does out there, amidst high grasses or shoreline. To heal is to draw across the divide; that and nothing more.

Balance has an eternal enemy, and its name is ambition.

War is not a natural state. It is an imposition, and a damned unhealthy one.

And that, my love, is precisely my point. Justice bites. With snippy sharp teeth. If it doesn't, then the common folk will perceive it as unbalanced, forever favouring the wealthy and influential. When robbed, the rich cry out for protection and prosecution. When stealing, they expect the judiciary to look the other way. Well, consider this a royal punch in the face. Let them smart.

Nature,' intoned Daint, 'always finds a balance. Why disrupt such a delicate situation?' 'I've seen horses run away when you look at them sidelong, Daint.

peace would settle on his soul.

What is otataral, you ask? Otataral is the opposite of magic. Negation to creation, absence to presence. If life is your god, then otataral is the other god, and that god is death. But, please understand, it is not an enemy. It is the necessary manifestation of a force in opposition. Both are essential, and together they are bound in the nature of existence itself. We are reviled for revealing the truth.

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A civilization can as easily drown in what it knows as in what it doesn't know.

Does it ever strike you, Finadd, that peace leads to an indulgence in strife?' 'No, since your statement is nonsensical. The opposite of peace is war, while war is an extreme expression of strife. By your argument, life is characterized as an oscillation between strife during peace and strife during war.' 'Not entirely nonsensical, then,' Turudal Brizad said.

Symmetry, lad, is a power unto itself. It is the expression, if you will, of nature's striving for balance.

It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms.

What is given away for free comes back wounded.

You will find a balance. Whence comes the answer to sadness few can predict, but it does come, in time, and you will learn to appreciate pleasure for the gift that it is.