Quotes About Balance

Maybe that's what history is, you go from one I can't believe it the next. And sometimes the I can't believe its are good, and sometimes they're bad. But the sum total of positive ones always outweighs the negative ones.

It daunted me that you were so beautiful, that you were so at ease in social situations, as if every room was heliotropic, with you at the center. And I guess it daunted you that I had so many more friends than you, that I could put my words together like this, on paper, and could sometimes conjure a certain sense out of things. The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us.

They had built a friendship strong enough to withstand the disappearance of kisses. It was off balance, at first, for sure- their bodies not knowing what to do, the magnetism toward kissing still there, because even when the mind shuts off the romance, it sometimes takes a while for the body to get the message.

Don't do it for the sake of doing it, but don't wait for a fantasy either.

El humor es tu brújula y tu escudo. Puedes afilarlo para convertirlo en un arma o arrancarle hebras para tejerte una colcha mullida. No se puede subsistir a base de humor, pero sin él, tampoco.

But I guess it's just as easy to get lost in the dealing as it is to get lost in the avoidance.

Everything is in its right place, and my heart wants to believe this can always be true. My heart wants to make it true, even as something darker tugs it away.

To get something, you must give something away. To hold something, you must give something away. To love something, you must give something away.

Infinite Darlene doesn't have it easy. Being both star quarterback and homecoming queen has its conflicts.

It's so natural to drag a good thing down. It takes a lot of control to let it be what it is. -Rhiannon

I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one, either.

I did not want the universe's ever-growing entropy to interfere with my lovelife

We often believe the truest measure of a relationship is the ability to lay ourselves bare. But there's something to be said for parading your plumage as well, finding truth as much in the silly as the severe. Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can't exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can't exist on a diet without it, either.

The only elixir to pass my lips was solitude." "Be careful you don't drink too much of that. It needs to be balanced by a rich diet of fine company.

it is hard for us to be alone between school and our friends and our families and his track practice and my literary magazine. so this pause is heaven, feeling entirely open

But no relationship should rely on you blocking out the world. The world will always get in.

We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

I can make up my homework, but I can't make up my life.

That's the law I've set down for myself--don't disrupt the life you're living in. Leave it as close to the same as you can.

I was daunted by you, and you were daunted by me. The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us.

We have become—although I'd never say this out loud—something like a model couple. The secret? We like each other. I mean, we really like each other. We know when to keep our space and when to share it.

Sostén. No quiero ser el fuerte, pero tampoco quiero ser el débil. ¿Por qué siempre da la impresión de que hay que ser uno u otro? Cuando nos abrazamos, siempre hay uno que aprieta con un poco más de fuerza.

Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses.

I was always thinking in terms of too much or not enough, rarely allowing myself that crucial space in between. Except when he was around. Except when we were really together. Then I could forget—I couldn't turn it off, but I could forget to turn it on. Gradually, the columns began to tip. I lost track of keeping track. In order to let us be, I let myself be.