Quotes About Groundedness

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.

BaÅŸar? olsun ya da olmas?n aya??n?z yere bast???nda, insanlar?n düÅŸünceleri kar??s?nda kendinizi daha kay?ts?z ve dayan?kl?, daha özgür, daha gerçek hissedersiniz.

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

You can't fall off the floor.

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

I was happy over little things: mango sorbet, and running, and the way my feet felt touching the ground when I ran.

No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.

Someone once told me that something they really liked about me was that they thought that I was really down to earth and not high-maintenance. I think that was cool. It's important to stay grounded.

Being real is what keeps me humble. It doesn't matter how much money I make or how much I accomplish. What's critical is staying real to myself and keeping my feet on the ground. That's what helps keep me going.

Balance lives in the present. When you feel the earth moving, bring yourself back to the now. You'll handle whatever shake-up the next moment brings when you get to it. In this moment, you're still breathing. In this moment, you've survived. In this moment, you're finding a way to step onto higher ground.

Be still and listen to the voices that belong to the stream banks and the trees and the open fields. Find your hope, then, on the ground under your feet.

As we grow, we lift our gaze higher and higher, and then sometimes we are brought to our knees, but all is not lost; what we find on the ground can be very valuable and precisely what we need.

Yes, my dear," she said out loud to herself, "you took quite a fall." And felt pure amazement at the long time it had taken before she had finally found again the ground.

Awareness of the world begins with your feet, he believes.

Letting go is not in order to get something better (the point Paul misses in the second half of his Philippians hymn); in and of itself it is the something better. For it immediately restores the broken link with the dynamic ground of reality, which by its very nature flows forth from a fullness beyond imagining.

As a Canadian psychiatrist observed: When a human being is standing with both feet firmly on the ground, with both legs on the earth, and is "quite normal" as we medical practitioners call it, spiritual life is very difficult, perhaps impossible. But if something is not quite right with the mind, a little wheel not working properly in the clockwork of the mind, then spiritual life is easy.

If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you'll never be able to dance.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Don't look for an unshakable rock to stand on; there ain't any! Rather, learn how to stand still on a shaking rock!

it is good to know about our terrible selves, not laud or criticize them, just acknowledge them. Then, out of this knowledge, we are better equipped to make a choice for beauty, kind consideration, and clear truth. We make this choice with our feet firmly on the ground. We are not running wildly after beauty with fear at our backs.

It was our own that were able to bring us home. It was those who were not strong that could give us strength. The mud that covered our bodies and clothes now clung to them as well, but it was the same mud that pulled at our feet, the mud of our own standing place

Hay un montón de hombres que no se proponen otra cosa que tumbarme. Y solo hay uno que intenta todo lo contrario. Asegurarse de que tengo los pies firmes en el suelo, para que no me caiga.