Quotes About Balance

There must be the hope … the hope for balance. In my soul.

If it is true and the Grey Helms seek to be the swords of nature's vengeance, then the Shield Anvil has missed the point. Since when is nature interested in revenge? Look around." He waved a hand. "The grass grows back where it can. The birds nest where they can. The soil breathes when it can. It just goes on, Highness, the only way it knows how to – with what's left.

I'll not deny I am impressed by your mastery of six warrens, Quick Ben. In retrospect, you should have held back on at least half of what you command." The man made to rise. "But, Bauchelain," the wizard replied, "I did.

Mathematically, circles embody change without change.

But my best hunch (and, full disclosure, I personally love geometry) is that people enjoy it because it marries logic and intuition. It feels good to use both halves of the brain.

Faith can be a wonderful thing if it is balanced by critical thinking.

There are always two or more sides to an issue, so don't accept any information at face value. Instead, be willing to hear all sides of the story. Take the time to explore both pro and counter–cult sites. Then you can develop your own, informed opinions.

Two Arts degrees does not a life make.

But exaltation of humanity in no way justifies unchecked devotion at the expense of others who inhabit our world and perhaps worlds beyond.

Love isn't supposed to be something that needs to be handled; it's supposed to be the thing that helps you handle everything else.

Over the years, I've found that anger is necessary, but it must reach an equilibrium: You need just enough but never too much. If you don't let it in, you become hollow; but if you let it take over, you become its slave.

It is a great testimony to the connectedness of life on earth that the fates of the largest and the tiniest life should be so closely dependent on each other.

Tell me what you value and I might believe you," management guru Peter Drucker once said, "but show me your calendar and your bank statement, and I'll show you what you really value." So

Tell me what you value and I might believe you," management guru Peter Drucker once said, "but show me your calendar and your bank statement, and I'll show you what you really value.

it is okay to make exceptions to the letter of the policy to maintain the spirit of the policy

What would you do when you weren't online?" To Schillace and his colleagues, the question was shortsighted. It was like condemning an appliance for using electricity.

Discipline must come through liberty…. We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined. We call an individual disciplined when he is master of himself.

Alas, our technology has marched ahead of our spiritual and social evolution, making us, frankly, a dangerous people.

We're reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we've placed on her, if we don't lift the burden ourselves.

You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.

Indians only needed so many implements and decorations. If a tribe drove three hundred buffalo over a cliff, they wouldn't feel obligated to make twenty-four hundred buffalo-hoof spoons and six hundred buffalo-horn charcoal carriers. Rather, they might just take the meat and hides from the best-looking female buffalo, those that weren't too smashed up or buried under other buffalo. That might be all they touched. After all, their time and energy had value, just as ours does.

our kids need to understand that they are not above, outside, or apart from their physical environment—they are completely intertwined with it, and it with them.

Magic is like that more often than not. Unseen. Subdued, not ostentatious. Unremarkable. It is the universe's way of regulating itself.

detachment from anger is one part of wisdom.