Sarah Dessen Quotes

Integration is a basic law of life; when we resist it, disintegration is the natural result, both inside and outside of us. Thus we come to the concept of harmony through integration.

We define organic order as the kind of order that is achieved when there is a perfect balance between the needs of the parts, and the needs of the whole.

I am two with nature.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

My life is a mosaic, and there's no room in between pieces at all.

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.

The things that have acquired unity are these: Heaven by unity has become clear; Earth by unity has become steady; The Spirit by unity has become spiritual; The Valley by unity has become full; All things by unity have come into existence.

I really have always thought of myself as somebody who lives in the middle of the wheel and is able to go to the extreme, to the outside of the wheel in any direction. The best case scenario for me is to be able to be centered and then go out.

There is a middle ground in things.

Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health.

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

Everything in life... has to have balance.

Will and I are yin and yang. He's all sky, vast and bright and soaring, and I'm all earth. I'm here to ground him, and he's here to help me fly.

I believe in a balanced government. I don't believe in minimum or maximum. Balance is always the best way.

I think that anything in life is about the middle ground.

I'm fascinated by the yin and yang of everything.

I've always been about the balance - not sacrificing one thing for the other and not being an extremist.

I try not to think of my life in terms of separation.

We have always put the quest for balance at the center of our storytelling, whether it is the struggle to find it within one character, between a character and society, between disparate cultures or between humans and their environment.

You are a piece of creation. If you go against any other piece of creation, you are unknowingly going against yourself.

Carrying body and soul and embracing the one, Can you avoid separation?