Quotes About Balance

There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal.

He longed for cleanliness and tidiness: it was hard to find peace in the middle of disorder.

Death fed life.

Is it the nature of the world that all things seek a rhythm, and in that rhythm a sort o peace?

To go without solitude is like going without salt.

When the bee to the earth does fall, the butterfly comes back to change all

The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places.

Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest.

So many things were easier to live with if you didn't give them much thought. p. 28

Está en la naturaleza del mundo que todas las cosas busquen un ritmo, y en ese ritmo anhelen una especie de paz?

Suspense was an excellent tool for keeping powerful people off balance. It gave one bargaining power.

Justice. There's a thing we shall ever thirst after, and ever be parched.

I could not help but see the hand of the balancer in all of this. Could hatred and determination be a counterweight to organization and experience? I suddenly understood something about the old god of death and why he was also the god of balances.

You've many tasks and duties, and I won't claim to know all that you do for our prince. I'm sure that at any moment of the day, you can find some reason to be too busy for this. But a man makes time for what is important in his life.

no man could make time, but only use that which he was given wisely.

Not every problem in the world belongs to you, Tom Badgerlock. Let others have their share.

Why must it be one or the other?' she countered. 'You are both a capable seaman and the son of a Bingtown Trader. Why should not I have both sets of skill?

My life has become too heavy with purpose. I cannot remember the last time I did something simply because I wanted to do it.

Is it the nature of the world that all things seek a rhythm, and in that rhythm a sort of peace? Certainly it has always seemed so to me. All events, no matter how earth-shaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence by the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day living.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that." Amber looked out to sea again. "And no less. Sometimes folk wish tomorrow did not pay them off so completely.

A man has to set limits on his magic and on himself. Setting limits is part of being a man.

A tower seldom crumbles from the bottom up

When I had encountered the Skill joy, I had not found it the tawdry pleasure Galen had implied. Rather, it had been the same rush of blood and thunder of earth that sometimes music brought to me, or a sudden flight of bright pheasant in an autumn wood, or even the pleasure of taking a horse perfectly over a difficult jump. That instant when all things come into balance, and for a moment turn together as perfectly as birds wheeling in flight.

In every building, in every garden, at every turn the visitor finds the austere beauty and simplicity of color and form that are the Mountain ideal. The overall impression that one carries away is of tranquillity and joy in the natural world. The chosen simplicity of life there may lead the visitor to question his own choice in life.