Quotes About Balance

If you watch the wolf too hard, a mouse will bite you on the ankle

The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.

I'll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the stronger of us. It was magnificent! If a woman is stronger than her husband, she comes to despise him. She has the choice of either tyrannizing him or else making herself less in order not to make him less. If the husband is strong enough, though, she can be as strong as she is, as strong as she can grow to be.

Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?

There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious.

Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.

Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess

Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.

A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair

The wheel of time turns and ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the age tha gave it birth returns again. In the third age, an age of prophecy the world and time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under shadow.

I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it.

And it shall come to pass, in the days when the Dark Hunt rides, when the right hand falters and the left hand strays, that mankind shall come to the Crossroads of Twilight and all that is, all that was, and all that will be shall balance on the point of a sword, while the winds of the Shadow grow. -From The Prophecies of the Dragon translation believed done by Jain Charin, known as Jain Farstrider, sheortly before his disapperance

If you have a sword, and the Aielman has his bare hands, it is an even fight. If you're good.

Take what you want, and pay for it, the old saying went.

The only people I ever met who were sensible all the time were so boring that watching them could put you to sleep.

Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear; cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.

You cannot make the land go against itself. Not for long; the land will rebel. You must shape the vision to the land, not the land to the vision.

When you have a wolf by the ears, it's as hard to let go as to hold on.

Letting emotions go clouds judgment for a moment, but holding them in clouds it always.

The trick is not to satisfy everyone, but to leave everyone feeling they reached the best possible result.

The moon by day the sun by night, deaf woman, blind men, jackdaw fool, let the lord of Chaos rule.

That was a thing of wolves; they could know the past and the future, yet keep their attention on the hunt. Could he do the same? Allow himself to be consumed when needed, yet keep balance in other parts of his life?

As many roads down as up, and the roads down as slippery as the others.