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Quotes About Balance

Doing battle with the forces of… I was going to say evil, but I'm increasingly unsure exactly where everyone around me falls on the Jedi-Sith Index.
~ Jim Butcher
Head got nothing to do with the heart. Your heart wants what it wants. Head got to learn that it can only kill the heart or else get out of the way.
~ Jim Butcher
It must be tempered with discipline. Ferocity is useless unless employed in the proper place . . .
~ Jim Butcher
Death is as light as a feather, duty heavier than a spire.
~ Jim Butcher
Susan's fingers wandered, and her eyes sparkled. "Your mouth says no," she purred, "but this says yes." I went up on my toes, and swallowed, trying to keep my balance and get her hand off me at the same time. "That thing is always saying something stupid," I told her.
~ Jim Butcher
As I pulled into the parking lot, I reflected that odds were that not a lot of clandestine meetings involving mystical assassination, theft of arcane power, and the balance of power in the realms of the supernatural had taken place in a Wal-Mart Super Center.
~ Jim Butcher
My mouth kept running without checking in with my brain. My heart maybe, but not my brain.
~ Jim Butcher
It's okay to hurt. It's not okay to fail the people who rely on me. That was my point of balance.
~ Jim Butcher
I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish.
~ Jim Butcher
She had never gotten it through her gentle head that there was a time for a soft paw and a time for red claws.
~ Jim Butcher
I reflected that odds were that not a lot of clandestine meetings involving mystical assassination, theft of arcane power, and the balance of power in the realms of the supernatural had taken place in a Wal-Mart Super Center.
~ Jim Butcher
Summer and Winter, constantly chasing each other, wounding what the other heals and healing what the other wounds.
~ Jim Butcher
wizards don't use magic to kill people. They use it to discover, to protect, to mend, to help. Not to destroy.
~ Jim Butcher
I will not live in a realm where calculations of power supersede justice and law - regardless of how inconvenient that may be to the Crown.
~ Jim Butcher
What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what's coming around." He paused for a moment, frowning faintly, pursing his lips. "And sometimes you are what's coming around. You see what I mean?
~ Jim Butcher
telling myself only hours ago that reason had to guide my actions, my decisions, if I was to keep control of myself?
~ Jim Butcher
Exercise is good for the body, but music is good for the soul." "Not the way I play it
~ Jim Butcher
He sauntered over to me and rammed one shoulder playfully against my knee. I wavered, recovered my balance, and unlocked the door. Mister, as was his just due, entered before I did.
~ Jim Butcher
When the Queens of Summer and Winter took to the same field, there were always storms.
~ Jim Butcher
I glanced at Mac as though to appeal for help. Mac ignored me. Mac doesn't take sides. Mac is wise.
~ Jim Butcher
Any shoes with heels that high should come with their own safety net. Or a parachute.
~ Jim Butcher
I believe that there's a cloud for every silver lining
~ Jim Butcher
There is world that should be, he [Listens-To-Wind 'Injun Joe'] growled, and the world that is. We live in one. And must create the other, Ebenezer retorted, if it is ever to be.
~ Jim Butcher
My teacher told me something once," I heard myself say in a quiet voice. "That the hardest lesson in life is learning when to do nothing. To learn to let go.
~ Jim Butcher