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Quotes About Balance

Caminando sobre nuestras cuerdas flojas, llevamos nuestros miedos y fijaciones como armas desnudas, y los usamos tan rápida y mortalmente como Billy the kid usaba su revólver»
~ Alfred Bester
Coriolanus'] violence and pride overbalanced his services; and he that would submit to no law, was justly driven out from the society which could subsist only by law.
~ Algernon Sidney
Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.
~ Alice Hoffman
Fourth time's the charm, she says to people who ask her what the secret of a happy marriage is, but that's not the way she feels about it. She knows now that when you don't lose yourself in the bargain, you find you have double the love you started with, and that's one recipe that can't be tampered with.
~ Alice Hoffman
What you send out comes back to you threefold. What you give to the world returns in kind. Blood begets blood.
~ Alice Hoffman
Life is beautiful, just very unfair.
~ Alice Hoffman
If you tried to right all the wrongs in the world you'd exhaust yourself in under an hour.
~ Alice Hoffman
You ever put your arms out and spin really, really fast ? Well, that's what loves like. It makes your heart race. It turns the world upside down. But if you're not careful, if you don't keep your eyes on something still, you can lose your balance. You can't see what's happening to the people around you. You can't see your about to fall.
~ Alice Hoffman
There are those who say that heaven and hell are not so far apart. They are not at opposite ends of the world beyond ours, only a step away from one another.
~ Alice Hoffman
Uncross your knives
~ Alice Hoffman
but as God created life, so did He create destruction.
~ Alice Hoffman
Nature could be shifted, but not controlled.
~ Alice Hoffman
The place where what someone needs and what she desires cross each other to become one.
~ Alice Hoffman
What is made of water and fire -- for isn't that what a man whose nature opposes his responsibilities can be said to be? Does one quench the other, or do they combine to ignite the depths of the soul?
~ Alice Hoffman
Eat raw garlic every day and a cup of hot water with lemon and honey.
~ Alice Hoffman
There were sinister aspects of magic, and what you brought into this world was your responsibility, to deal with forevermore.
~ Alice Hoffman
In essentials, unity; in nonessentials, liberty; and in all things love.
~ Alice Hoffman
She knows now that when you don't lose yourself in the bargain, you find you have double the love you started with, and that's one recipe that can't be tampered with.
~ Alice Hoffman
It's no good to need someone more than you want them.
~ Alice Hoffman
We will have to pay a price for being happy?""Everyone does. That's what it means to be alive.
~ Alice Hoffman
What you set out into the world came back to you threefold.
~ Alice Hoffman
Do as you will, but harm no one. What you give will be returned to you threefold.
~ Alice Hoffman
A fish and a sparrow cannot live in the same world. one will gasp for air and the other will drown.
~ Alice Hoffman
It was a balancing act, to hold off quarrel and worry, the coming years, the coming months, even tomorrow morning for just whatever time it took to finish a sandwich, to drink the coffee while it was still hot. Careful now. All around them
~ Alice McDermott