We're a part of life, we aren't living it. For all the talk of Halloween costumes and cake baking and trappings and trails of human existence, we are not. I am Patience and I will never be anything other than who and what I am. If there is balance, I am in it, I do not possess it.
But our 'living' as you call it comes from the mortal balance, the humanity's possession of all of us in equal measure. Our influence causes our living and our living, our influence. And I will not abide one setting himself above the others without that balance.