Quotes About Balance

All my life I have struggled with making decisions—which I blame on being a true Libra—

But is not one a result of the other?" she asked. "Love and loyalty? I cannot see how could you prefer one to the other.

No proper life could be made from the pursuit of blinding pleasure followed by limp exhaustion.

there was a sudden easing in him, as if someone had finally played a note that harmonized with the one he sounded every day.

After all, "justice" was really another word for commerce, something every man at the mercy of it eventually learns.

When she pulled it out, something tum- bled out along with it: a soft copper lock of her own hair. She went blank for a moment, thrown oddly off bal ance. The things lined up neatly on the floor in front of her were like words to a sentence in a language she had only begun learning, a sentence punctuated poignantly by a copper curl. They told a story Rebecca sensed she already half knew, she could feel it radiating, increasing in light, on the far reaches of her awareness.

Nothing was more erotic than a big, hot, strong guy armed with a spreadsheet whose object was to make her life easier.

Never be ruled by possessions, and never, ever make wealth more important to you than your self-respect and your dignity. - Lady Taylor

I don't get angry. I get even.

It did not seem possible, much as he craved the comfort of a woman of intelligence, of humor and balance and perception.

He greeted the group by turning to Freeman. "We're trying to cut down on the racial imbalance in this movie," he said with a small smile. Freeman responded in kind. "Spread the ethnicity around," he said. He too was smiling, though his eyes were quite serious.

Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.

Water and stone Flesh and bone Night and morn Rose and thorn Tree and wind Heart and mind

you will know that you are part of the one great magic that binds us all together. Our strength comes from that magic, from the earth and the sky, from the fire and the water. Fly high, swim deep, give back to the earth what she gives you....

Breath of the winds; dancing flame; peace of the earth; song of the waves.

if you give respect, yet get respect back. If you offend, you get...retribution.

Her kind will tell you there is no black and white, only shadows. That any way can be wrong or right, that good and evil are two sides of the same coin. Believe her if you will. Perhaps she tells the truth

One does not meddle lightly with the forces of the forest.

Your kind have forgotten the old ways," says Eirne. "You have forgotten the importance of the tales, the wisdom of the past, the strength that rises from tree and stone and stream, the bond between one world and the other.

Don't load yourself up too heavy. Even the strongest heart has a breaking point.

You must learn that such a life is not only one of privilege, but also one of service and responsibility.

Natural magic, the kind that lets you use what is already present, the power of earth, air, fire and water, to help you in times of need. Small tricks, maybe, but deep ones.

The parlor may have its charms, but the Japanese toilet truly is a place of spiritual repose.

You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you?