On balance

"In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice
and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our own chiaroscuro,
our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid,
something real. We’ve got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to
forgive myself. Because there is a lot of grey to work with. No one can
live in the light all the time."  - Libba Bray (A Great and Terrible Beauty)

''Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great
terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it
always balances them.'' - Anais Nin (The Diaries)

“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist
or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence
is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully
balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.” - Rumi

"How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of
balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.” 
- Elaine Scarry (On Beauty and Just Being)