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“My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful demands of motherhood, chafing sometimes at the way they pulled me away from my separate life, not knowing how to balance them with my unwieldy need for solitude and creative expression.”

Way Needs Heart Children Sometimes Powerful Creative Knowing Expression Balance Solitude Demand Motherhood My Children Not Knowing Creative Expression Separate Lives Chafing

Book:Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France

Source: Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France

“God maintains a delicate balance between keeping his existence sufficiently evident so people will know he's there and yet hiding his presence enough so that people who want to choose to ignore him can do it. This way, their choice of destiny is really free.”

People Knows Way Want Enough God Christian Choices Can Do Freedom Existence Destiny Balance Hiding Delicate Evident Freedom To Choose

Author:J.P. Moreland

“Past one o’clock. You must have gone to bed. The Milky Way streams silver through the night. I’m in no hurry; with lightning telegrams I have no cause to wake or trouble you. And, as they say, the incident is closed. Love’s boat has smashed against the daily grind. Now you and I are quits. Why bother then To balance mutual sorrows, pains, and hurts. Behold what quiet settles on the world. Night wraps the sky in tribute from the stars. In hours like these, one rises to address The ages, history, and all creation.”

Source: Klop, Stikhi, Poėmy

“We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past "weird" and "strange" and "goofy." Her ways knocked us off balance.”

Way Seems Wanted Past Strange Balance Wraps Goofy

Book:Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“If you had grown up with me, this is one of the things I would have tried to teach you: Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have both now, and when it is the other way around, there is no spell in the world that can even out the balance.”

Ifs Men World Way Teach Love You Balance Spells Love You More

Book:Vanishing Acts

Source: Vanishing Acts

“Sometimes I aint so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It's like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.”

Thinking Men Way Doe Sometimes Crazy Balance Pure Fellows Majority Folks Sane

Book:Faulkner's county: tales of Yoknapatawpha county

Source: Faulkner's county: tales of Yoknapatawpha county

“There is a moment after death when things can go one of several ways, when souls can mingle and reunite-or be forever parted. Fate throws the bones, and hearts are mended, or shattered. What tips the balance in one's favor? Is it Mercy, or Grace, or Justice-the names of the three brightest angels? Or is it Love, the name of the One True Being?”

Way Heart Soul Moments Three Names Justice Forever Grace Fate Balance Angel Mercy Bones Favors After Death Shattered

Book:Wicked: Resurrection

Source: Wicked: Resurrection

“and I wondered if, in the end, this is how all disputes are settled, with a shared silence as things become equal. You take something from me, I take something from you. We all want balance, one way or another.”

Ifs Way Want Ends Silence Balance Equal One Way Disputes

Book:The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one day, wrecked on the rocks the next. Finding the balance between the two was the art and the salvation.”

Way Art Two Joy Next Rocks Balance Gratitude One Day Findings Salvation

Author:Elizabeth Berg