Quotes About Balance

O dia e a noite (...) As sombras e a luz. A vida e a morte. Tudo isso faz parte do desenrolar dos dias, Morag. Tudo isso faz parte do mundo. Uma vida pode impedir outra de existir. As ervas daninhas podem espalhar-se e não deixar espaço para as outras plantas crescerem. É importante ir-se ceifando aqui e ali.

HE HAS TEETH. SHE HAS A GUN. THEY ARE THE LAW.

Anger and reason are rarely partners

What you give comes back to you. It's not tit for tat--life isn't that simple--but what you give always comes back to you.

She would have told her to respect her limitations as well as her abilities.

Earth. Air. Water. Fire. Light of the sun. Light of the moon. Dreams and will. That's what it takes.

I may not be using the straightest ruler when it comes to measuring crazy. - Vicki DeVine

A leader had to stay alert and aware of the enemy who lived all around his people, had to enforce rules and agreements. Had to decide if the humans needed to be exterminated. And a leader ran the risk of absorbing too much that was human, becoming too much like the enemy.

If you break the agreements with the terra indigene , the terra indigene will strike back and strike hard.

We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." [ Meditations Divine and Moral ]

High time, my girl - high time! Moderation in all things, remember. That's the plan"Let your moderation be known unto all men!"

Your grief is as great as your splendor was: some god is weighing the one out equal to the other.

You can have your rich table and life flowing over the cup. I need one food: I must not violate Elektra.

But when justice is done the world drops away.

When is a pilgrim like a photograph? When the blend of acids and sentiment is just right.

Like honey is the sleep of the just.

There is a moment when the water is not in one vessel nor in the other

Perhaps Jonas is learning that bread without butter is no better for the spirit than all butter and no bread. Jonas has always been so serious. He hasn't realized that rest and fun and laughter are as important as work," she [Mother] looked down at her work-roughened hands, "though they don't always come as often as we wish.

Like too many of us, I mistook a busy life for a rich one.