Quotes About Balance

you can't fart without changing the balance in the universe.

The basic thing is, how frightened are you of chaos? And how happy are you with order?

No one can win against kipple," he said, "except temporarily and maybe in one spot, like in my apartment I've sort of created a stasis between the pressure of kipple and nonkipple, for the time being. But eventually I'll die or go away, and then the kipple will again take over. It's a universal principle operating throughout the universe; the entire universe is moving toward a final state of total, absolute kippleization.

Body of yin, soul of yang.

Ak?ll? adam her ÅŸeyin mümkün olduÄŸunu bilmez. Bir baÅŸka deyiÅŸle zihinsel aç?dan hasta olan kiÅŸi arada s?rada çok fazla bilir.

But there are other things than work.

you're not paid back for the bad you do nor the good you do. It all comes out uneven at the end. Haven't I learned that by now, if I've learned anything?

On the whole it's not wise to remind the devil that he's the devil, especially when we were getting on so well.

A man might think he can stare into the abyss without falling in but sometimes the abyss stares back. Sometimes the abyss exerts a strange effect on your sense of balance.

From what we are, spirit; from what we do, matter. Matter and spirit are one.

I see the Master as a man having terrible choices to make; whatever he chooses will do harm, but maybe if he does the right thing, a little less harm will come about than if he chooses wrong. God preserve me from having to make that sort of choice.

Asriel was a tall man with powerful shoulders, a fierce dark face, and eyes that seemed to flash and glitter with savage laughter. It was a face to be dominated by, or to fight: never a face to patronize or pity. All his movements were large and perfectly balanced, like those of a wild animal, and when he appeared in a room like this, he seemed a wild animal held in a cage too small for it.

Mas o que é melhor, almejar a pureza absoluta e fracassar completamente. ou fazer concessões e ter sucesso, mesmo que parcial?

To be sure, there's a warm passion behind what you say. But if you give in to that passion, friends, you're a doing what I always warned you agin: you're a placing the satisfaction of your own feelings above the work you have to do.

The wonder was in her, and the skepticism was in the world, and the coolness was in both.

Lord Asriel was a tall man with powerful shoulders, a fierce dark face, and eyes that seemed to flash and glitter with savage laughter. It was a face to be dominated by, or to fight: never a face to patronize or pity. All his movements were large and perfectly balanced, like those of a wild animal, and when he appeared in a room like this, he seemed a wild animal held in a cage too small for it.

some of what's good has to hurt us a little

adjusting her balance like a wave rider in the Peaceable Ocean.

We live our lives between magic and panic.

One has periods of ghastliness. And then long periods of sort of quiet and love.

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends; it is with them that I take those walks in the country at the end of the day. I am also on friendly terms with Deadly Playfulness, Playful Playfulness, Serious Playfulness, Serious Seriousness, and Sheer Sheerness. From the last, however, I get nothing; he just wrings my heart and leaves me speechless.

If you don't go crazy because of your husband's vices, you go crazy because of his virtues.

At a certain point, we're either gonna have to put away childish things and discipline ourself about how much time do I spend being passively entertained? And how much time do I spend doing stuff that actually isn't all that much fun minute by minute, but that builds certain muscles in me as a grown-up and a human being?

The best teachers seem to acknowledge the conflict between their vocations, reach some kind of internal compromise, and go on.