Quotes About Balance

Anger is not the absence of love. Anger broke you apart. Love and anger wrap around each other and becomes one living thing inside your heart.

Somehow I escaped punishment in that life, and so now, lifetimes later, a very special kind of hell is being rained down on me, the full rage of karmic justice.

Why did the act of simplifying your life seem so complicated and require so much effort? Why was there never any time to do it?

I did, in fact, believe life was fair. Well, not fair exactly, but balanced. Yin and yang. Good and evil. Right and wrong. Bitter and sweet. One did not exist without the other. When life is bad, you know it's going to get better. When life is good, you know it's going to go bad. If that's not fair, I don't know what is.

The rich and vivid imagining that served her so well on the page was torture in her real life sometimes, if she let her thoughts sweep her away.

Now we are even.

Every sign secretly contains its opposite

But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.

I can't say I'm unhappy about it,' added the bard, 'I get along well enough with mice, and I've always been found of birds, but when you put the two together I'd just as soon avoid them.

It is easy to judge evil unmixed," replied Gwydion. "But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.

Vi är varken onda eller goda. Vi är helt enkelt intresserade av saker precis som det de är.

Of course not, agreed Orddu. We're neither good nor evil. We're simply interested in things as they are. And things as they are, at the moment, seem to be that you're caught by the Crochan.

Morality has its equations too - they graph the curve of compassion between the quick and the dead.

The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books.

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.

He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace.

Sometimes we have to hurt people, in order to keep ourselves whole. We must just do it with love, that's all.

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together. I

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.

Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.

But though you'd never starve your body to wasting and still expect to go on, you starve your heart, yet act as though you can still draw on it forever without the debt ever coming due. If you fall—when you fall, you're going to fall like a starving man.

his time being divided into days with too many things to do, and days with far too many things to do

Indeed. On average, one-half of all supplicants to come before a judge's bench must depart angry and disappointed. But not, by that, necessarily wronged..