Quotes about Balance
Light and darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being in joyful rhythm.
— Madeleine L'Engle
If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star.
— Madeleine L'Engle
It is the pattern throughout Creation. One child, one man, can swing the balance of the universe.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For Heaven and the future's sakes.
— Madeleine L'Engle
If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Ananda: that joy without which the universe will fall apart and collapse.
— Madeleine L'Engle
In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be underdeveloped in every other way.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Maybe if you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.
— Madeleine L'Engle
It's a stage we all go through; it takes a certain amount of living to strike the strange balance between the two errors either of regarding ourselves as unforgivable or as not needing forgiveness.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Strength can always be used to destroy as well as create
— Madeleine L'Engle