Gayle Forman Quotes

As a magician, you must think about chaos and order. Those are the two forces that control the universe.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

Life is about balance. You don't want to live out of whack over here or out of whack over here. I want to win and be well compensated, and I think there's a balance to find. It doesn't have to be one extreme or the other.

I don't know what exactly the translation is but when we do consume something now, something else has to give at some point.

What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round.

The universe only gives you what you can handle, so trust that whatever is happening to you is exactly what you need. Just trust. Have certainty!

Everything is give and take. The solutions are in the middle not in the extremity of the situation.

Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.

Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person getting exactly what he deserves. It might give me some confidence in this universe.

Okay, maybe this was the meant to be: the universe I knew, loved nothing more than balance.

Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.

The universe is completely balanced and in perfect order. You will always be compensated for everything that you do.

Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative.

All life is a boomerang. We receive what we give.

I see the universe as naturally and infinitely self-correcting.

Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up; It takes from what is in excess In order to make good of what is deficient. Who can take what they have in excess and offer it to others?

You must first put something into your life before you can get something out of it.

Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the exclusion of both these extremes, the Truth-Finder has discovered a middle course.

Everything has its advantages and disadvantages.

What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.

Unbalance so as to re-balance.

There's no great loss without some small gain.

The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger--so it be done for love, and not forostentation--do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.

If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost.

BUSINESS and LIFE are like a bank account-you can't take out more than you put in.