Middle Ground Quotes

“A healthy discussion can take place only if all sides have respect for each other's views. Otherwise they just drive each other to their extremes and ultimately explode.”
― Shunya

“I can still see Boo sitting there on the floor, cross-legged, holding my Ken and watching my face as she tried to make me see that between my mother'sPTA and Boo's strange ways there was a middle ground that began here with my Barbie, Sab-rina,and led right to me.
"She can be anything," Boo told me, and this is what I remember most, her freckled face so solemn, as if she knew she was the first to tell me. "And so can you.”
― Sarah Dessen, Dreamland

“I wasn't rebellious. Maybe I was just more human than the average person.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Still Point

“17. One of the secrets of successful living is found in the word balance, referring to the avoidance of harmful extremes. We need food, but we should not overeat. We should work, but not make work our only activity. We should play, but not let play rule us. Throughout life, it will be important to find the safety of the middle ground rather than the imbalance of the extremes.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“Knight, of course, felt that anyone's willing assistance tainted the whole thing. Either you are hidden or you're not, no middle ground. He wished to be unconditionally alone, exiled to an island of his own creation, an uncontacted tribe of one.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

“You weren't supposed to think. Just feel. You need to drop some of your senses in order to heighten others.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Still Point

“Why can't I be content with a structured, predictable life? Why do I have to take risks?...There are so many clean paths trimmed and paved and I always have to run through the middle, where there is no path; there are vines and brambles and rocks and holes and I fall down and scrape the hell out of my life. For what? Kicks?”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground