Quotes About Balance

With the careful steps of the drunk

You're a good girl, Jude, but you don't have to be good all the time.

We'll say living happy as you can, loving hard as you can. Taking care when care's needed. And a good cup of wine of an evening.

Light defeats the dark. Fire purifies. And blood is at the heart of all.

Make your days count. Don't invest all your efforts in the future. You miss too much of the now.

Don't turn your back on your own happiness just to hug your pride. One's cold without the other.

You have to think of the positive, of the light, or the dark takes over.

We have a deal. Emmaline, when you find a man who gives you a good foot rub, look closely. Many flaws are outweighed by that single skill.

Earth, air, water, fire. We call on them, use them, with respect. It's not our power over them, but the merging of our power with theirs.

Don't complicate the simple, Lenore, he told her thinking aloud. It usually manages to complicate itself.

Changing it without damaging it. If you cut down a tree, is what you're putting in its place worth the sacrifice?

Man needs the comfort of the simple as much as he needs the glory

Time's fickle. When you need it, there's too little of it. Then you wake up at three o'clock in the morning, and there's too much of it. It's usually better to take it that to anticipate it.

Never step back unless you've looked over your shoulder first. And don't step forward until you've tested the ground.

Without rules, chaos.' With chaos, life.

I expect sometimes both tend, and other times one may tend more as the other forgets for a bit, then it might shift over again." It was all a matter of balance, he thought, with some care and effort tossed in.

friend. To have only the heat without the warmth? It would do, and does, but only just.

driven out. The cougar and the wolf stay, but

You have all you need. A home, children, work that satisfies you. What do you need with a man?

A man can't work too hard at something he loves.

Time's never lost, just spent on other matters.

weigh the scale. I'd say

Love is worry and joy together.

Fear can be a weapon just as courage. Without fear there is no prudence. Without prudence there is recklessness. With recklessness, defeat.