Quotes About Groundedness

You've got to wake up and perfect your craft, every day, and at the end of the day, you know, you get the star power, magazines, photos shoots, but you've got to say humble, you've got to stay grounded.

How do we build root systems capable of weathering every storm that seeks to draw us into the temporary and the profane?

It seemed to me that we ought occasionally to be reminded of instability beneath our feet.

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.

A few simple tips for life: feet on the ground, head to the skies, heart open...quiet mind

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

We spend our lives hurrying away from the real, as though it were deadly to us. "It must be up there somewhere on the horizon," we think. And all the time it is in the soil, right beneath our feet.

We spend our lives hurrying away from the real, as though it were deadly to us. 'It must be up there somewhere on the horizon,' we think. And all the time it is in the soil, right beneath our feet.

A powerful foundation is worth it in a long run

I think you've got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, and you must not believe things that are said or written about you, because everything gets out of proportion one way or the other.

In the contemplative Christian tradition, to be humiliated is to be returned to the ground of your being.

Yoga is not only learning to stand on your head but also learning to stand on your feet.

When are you going to let yourself descend from your lofty preoccupations, and simply land where you are?

You can't up-up-and-away in creativity and innovation without spending down-on-the-ground time in the muck and the mire.

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.

She stopped. It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin.

The truly humble feel the ground beneath their feet every day and do not only become aware of it when held aloft or pushed down to their knees.

For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. —Henry David Thoreau

Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on. -Annik Marchand

The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on it axis when everybody else is bouncing around.

A person who keeps always his profile down-to-earth doesn't have to worry with those who surround or who to go around for he is likely to get only those who are of his ilk and the real worth on the ground.

Above all, I soaked in the 'feel' of the downs, the warm sense of the ground itself actively holding one up; a sureness, a steadfastness; and the sense that one gets in down country of kinship with a land that has been mixed up with the life men since it and men began.

Lose yourself in the far off worlds that are right under your feet. Switch below with above all the way up into infinity. We should be thankful who we are, whether we know ourselves or not.