Life is never truly balanced.

The trouble with magic is that it never really lets go. If you work one magic to undo another, you might end up with a bigger problem than you had in the first place.

Many things can cause a loss of balance. One cause is danger, another is hardship, and another is surprise. You must research this. In large-scale strategy it is important to cause loss of balance. Attack without warning where the enemy is not expecting it, and while his spirit is undecided follow up your advantage and, having the lead, defeat him.

Somewhere between unlikely and impossible is where magic happens.

Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party—whether he realizes it or not—must always come out the worse.

When we lack balance, we’re upset.
Over-worked, under-loved, over-eating, under-sleeping.
Focused on wealth, but ignoring health.
Focused on the present, but ignoring the future.

You don't believe magic is possible in lives lived within traditional boundaries.

No system of balance functions automatically.

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

often the trouble with magical things. They’re never quite what you’d expect.

Nothing great ever happens in your comfort zone.

I don't think I've ever wanted magic more.

Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it’s a phantom chase.