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Quotes About Balance

She'd learned not to hurry—had taught herself not to push, not to rush, but to take things as they came. And in a very real way to embrace every single moment.
~ Nora Roberts
Thinking of Macintosh's reaction to Veronica, Grant felt a wave of empathy. Poor kid's going to be mooning like a puppy for a month. Did you have to smile at him? Really,Grant.He can't be more than fifteen. Old enough to break out in a sweat, he commented. Hormones, she murmured as she found Fairfield's sparse selection of wine. They just need time to balance. Grant's gaze drifted down and focused as she bent over. It should only take thirty or forty years, he muttered.
~ Nora Roberts
Creative is my god. Technology my cherished lover.
~ Nora Roberts
Heaven and Earth, Ripley, do more than hold us between them. They expect us to deserve it.
~ Nora Roberts
There're twenty-four hours in every day. Isn't there enough reality in that so we can put a small portion of time aside for wishing?
~ Nora Roberts
If the worlds were as we wish, the light would be only for joy and beauty, for healing and help. But the worlds are not what we wish. So we use the light to protect and shield, to fight the dark, even kill.
~ Nora Roberts
CiCi Lennon lived life by her own rules. Two of the top rules—Try Not to Hurt Anybody, and Have the Balls to Say What You Think—often clashed, but the results blended with her Be An Asshole When Necessary rule, so it worked for her.
~ Nora Roberts
Time's never lost, just spent on other matters.
~ Nora Roberts
It never hurts to flirt. And you've made a career of it. That's just to balance your ice princess routine. 'Oh hello, Chad. Sarah put a distant look in her eye and gracefully lifted a hand. Keeley's comment was short and rude and made Sarah giggle. Dignity isn't a flaw, Keeley insisted, even as her own lips twitched. You could use a little. You've got plenty for both of us.
~ Nora Roberts
Pressed from all corners, you often things, If I could just have eight hours of quiet. You will have that someday, but you won't have those little guys you have no and you'll miss them.
~ Nora Roberts
Perhaps it was the demands of having to take on me and the farm that left so little time for the gentler things. Such small things: a kiss goodnight, a word of affection... a child can starve with a full plate.
~ Nora Roberts
Wouldn't it be nice if everything balanced in the world? If right came out on top and wrong was punished. It sure would be simple.
~ Nora Roberts
Avery McTavish - The Last Boyfriend Insanity...She knew how to organize and stay that way. But it seemed to her all her organization skills arrowed toward work and missed her life by a mile.
~ Nora Roberts
I believe strongly in the threefold rule. What you send out into the universe, good or bad, comes back at you threefold. But I'd risk whatever came at me to send out something that would drop that bitch like a stone down a bottomless well for trying to hurt you or my baby.
~ Nora Roberts
Marriage is a series of compromises, and at its best, the compromises create a life, a partnership.
~ Nora Roberts
Nature's a bitch and she barely tolerates us.
~ Nora Roberts
Heal the mind, ease the heart.
~ Nora Roberts
When you wanted to much, too quickly, he thought, it was best to take things slow.
~ Nora Roberts
Compromise isn't so painful if you're the one setting the terms.
~ Nora Roberts
it, and that somehow matched the thick socks on
~ Nora Roberts
own personal calendar.
~ Nora Roberts
Where there is a great deal of light, the shadows are deeper. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
~ Nora Roberts
The head is always the dupe of the heart. —LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
~ Nora Roberts
Love and hate. Everything else stems from that.
~ Nora Roberts