Quotes About Groundedness

Always watch your base: Be attentive to the portion nearest the ground. Correct first form the root.

I'm grounded in who I am.

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

We may do well to be attentive to the good and the bad vibrations in life. Since elephants use their feet to listen to vibrations and thus capture significant codes of impending peril, they might coach humans and teach them how to become "surefooted" in hazardous times. Keeping feet on the ground, however, should not hinder us from flying high and reaching soaring heights. ("Trompe le pied.")

You have to realize where you stand, the ground underneath you, that's your battleground.

Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.

Eating is a genuine need, continuous from our first day to our last, amounting over time to our most significant statement of what we are made of and what we have chosen to make of our connection to home ground.

For the Christian tradition, the heart's true home is a life rooted in the love of God. Like Lao-tzu and Dorothy both, Christian wisdom about stability points us toward the true peace that is possible when our spirits are stilled and our feet are planted in a place we know to be holy ground.

Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.

That love and loyalty, that groundedness, is always there. I got the type of family that no matter how far I go in Hollywood, they will quickly remind me who the hell I am and where the hell I came from.

As I entered this world, I would leave behind the nurturing of my family and my home, but in another sense I would take their protection with me. The lessons I had learned, the feelings of groundedness and belonging that have been woven into my character there, would be my companions on the journey.

I feel grateful to the Milesian wench who, seeing the philosopher Thales continually spending his time in contemplation of the heavenly vault and always keeping his eyes raised upward, put something in his way to make him stumble, to warn him that it would be time to amuse his thoughts with things in the clouds when he had seen to those at his feet. Indeed she gave him or her good counsel, to look rather to himself than to the sky. —Michel de Montaigne

As for the complex ways of living, I love them not, however much I practice them. In as many places as possible, I will get my feet down to the earth.

We should practice being so centered in our daily lives that if the world crumbles beneath our feet it doesn't matter and won't throw us off.

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

We see only the flowers that are under our feet in the meadows.

I'm a bad customer for my own buildings! If I'm choosing an apartment, I choose one about five or six stories high so that I can see the people, the trees, and the world on the street. Beyond that, I lose contact with the ground!

It is the blessing of dumb work done close to the earth-one gritty minute at a time, we move forward.

I'm a history person, and I love the groundedness of that, of being able to go, "Yes! People acted like that."

I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.

This is a marathon in life. You can't be sprinting all the time or else you wear yourself out. You have to make sure you're taking care of yourself, keeping yourself grounded and not letting every little thing get you worked up.

You can always land on your feet if you know where the ground is.

Hãy Ä'i nh?ng bÆ°á»›c chân nhÆ° hôn vào m?t ??t Hãy Ä'i nh?ng bÆ°á»›c chân nhÆ° vá»— v? trái ??t

It is easy to stand still and leave no trace, but it is hard to walk without touching the ground. (p. 53)