Quotes About Balance

The sun shines differently, the air is different, water is not as it used to be. The things we used to eat, made use of, are dying, diminishing, deteriorating. We never cultivated the land. Unlike you humans we never tore at it with hoes and ploughs. To you, the earth pays a bloody tribute. It bestowed gifts on us. You tear the earth's treasures from it by force. For us, the earth gave birth and blossomed because it loved us. - 197

The sword of destiny has two edges… You are one of them.

Il mio più gran difetto è la bontà illimitata. Io devo semplicemente fare del bene. Ma sono un nano ragionevole e so che non riuscirò mai a farlo a tutti. Se provassi a essere buono con tutti, col mondo intero e con tutte le creature che lo popolano, sarebbe una goccia nel mare: in altre parole, uno sforzo inutile. Perciò ho deciso di fare del bene in modo concreto, così che non vada sprecato. Sono buono con me e con chi mi è più vicino.

Quanto alla fretta, di solito l'impressione dell'inesorabile incalzare del tempo è un segnale d'allarme che impone di rallentare il ritmo e agire lentamente e con l'adeguata riflessione.

In che cosa consiste l'autentica virilità se non in una ben proporzionata miscela di classe e follia?

Vale la pena pagare il piacere col dolore.

If I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all." – Geralt of Rivia, The Last Wish

Lille does nae let us harm anything. Any creature.' 'Of course,' Dandelion butted in, 'country prophetesses grow from the same tree as druids. And a druid will go so far as to wish the gadfly sucking his blood to enjoy its meal.

Um mal é um mal, Stregobor – retrucou seriamente o bruxo, pondo-se de pé. – Menor, maior, médio, tanto faz… As proporções são convencionadas e as fronteiras, imprecisas. Não sou um santo eremita e não pratiquei apenas o bem ao longo de minha vida. Mas, se me couber escolher entre dois males, prefiro abster-me por completo da escolha. Está na hora de ir embora. Ver-nos-emos amanhã.

Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.

Were I to attempt to be good to everyone, to the entire world and to all the creatures living in it, it would be a drop of fresh water in the salt sea. In other words, a wasted effort. Thus, I decided to do specific good; good which would not go to waste. I'm good to myself and my immediate circle.

Most people fail at whatever they attempt because of an undecided heart. Should I? Should I not? Go forward? Go back? Success requires the emotional balance of a committed heart. When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.

As David told a friend one day, "I'm working so hard to live where we want to live that I don't actually get to live there." As

I feel kind of normal," I say. "Normal but a little crazy.

There is a fine line between social networking and wasting your fucking life.

There is a fine line between social networking and wasting your f**king life.

They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies.

Doing nothing all day—it's difficult at first. Being busy is a habit, and a hard one to break.

People keep finding themselves in an unforgiving matrix of overwork, stress, and unwilling complicity in the destruction of the earth.

The biblical record suggests that we need to rest not just one day a week but for longer times at longer intervals, up to the forty-nine-year cycle called the "jubilee" that allowed both land and farmers to be rejuvenated. But if the work of creating consistently leaves us depressed or drained, it is likely that we have somehow missed the path. Creation, even on a human scale, is meant to end with the glad exclamation, "It is very good.

What is most needed in our time are Christians who are deeply serious about cultivating and creating but who wear that seriousness lightly—who are not desperately trying to change the world but who also wake up every morning eager to create.

We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we've lost our connection to ourselves.

My art helps make sense of things.

A tension develops between what I want and what is emerging. This tension is important to the feeling of the piece.