Quotes About Balance

In this world, there is a fine line between enlightenment and brain damage.

Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge? Allie considered this. Meaning? Meaning, we might be able to shake things up a little, and find a way to come up heads. Or tails, suggested Allie. What are you talking about? said Lief. Life and death.

So what happens when your universe begins to get off balance, and you don't have any experience with bringing it back to center? All you can do is fight a losing battle, waiting for those walls to collapse, and your life to become one huge mystery ashtray.

survival is a dance between our needs and our consciences.

She idly wonders which is crueler, man or nature. She determines it must be man. Nature has no remorse, but neither does it have malice.

But sometimes you get a career and then you suddenly realize you don't have a life. Or if you stay at home with your family, you suddenly realize that your life is actually everyone else's life, not your own. Either way, when you got all your eggs in one basket, the basket gets heavy. Maybe the eggs start to break.

In fact, in the grand scheme of things, everyone was equally useless.

People aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness all our lives.

So much of my life had been under tight control. So much of Quinn's life had been wild insanity. What we needed now was both: a directed burst of controlled insanity.

The best we can hope for is to be humble in our arrogance.

Perhaps, thought Talon, there was a path in between. A way to shed their ignorance without losing their souls.

And you know the darkness beyond despair, just as intimately as you know the soaring heights. Because in this and all universes, there is balance. You can't have the one without facing the other. And sometimes you think you can take it because the joy is worth the despair, and sometimes you know you can't take it and how did you ever think you could? And there is the dance; strength and weakness, confidence and desolation.

The end doesn't always justify the means, dear," she said. "But sometimes it does. Wisdom is knowing the difference.

One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have - people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives.

I feel as if my entire life depends on my holding it together.

Is it not the job of the gardener to shape the tree as much as possible? And shouldn't branches that begin to reach unreasonably high be the first to be pruned?

I shouldn't be here," I appeal to the captain, wondering if I've told him this before. "I have midterms and papers due and dirty clothes I never picked up from my bedroom floor, and I have friends, lots of friends.

Indeed, nothing awful is without its beautiful side.

Makes sense, the earth is quick to consume the flesh of things that ain't natural.

No matter how smart we think we are, we simply can't know all there is to now-and if you spend all your time thinking about those things, it will drive you crazy.

People aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of the darkness and light all our lives.

So what happens when your universe begins to get off balance, and you don't have any experience with bringing it back to center? All you can do is fight a losing battle, waiting for those walls to collapse, and your life to become one huge mystery ashtray. 19. Deconstructing

We leave justice to the universe. And what rings out always echos back.

The binary at last becoming the one.