Quotes About Stability

People think edges are bad, but they are really there to keep up from falling to pieces. They don't hold us back, they hold us in. They hold us together.

I thought of all the times we'd been together, how I kept coming closer, then retreating, while he stayed right where he was. A constant in a world where few, if any, really existed.

There has been corruption in the Belgian civil service and at government level for decades. The Royal family do what they can to hold things together, and they don't do a bad job.

I'm not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together.

Not having to travel and being able to settle in has helped me in training life and school life. I've learned to get a grip and take care of myself.

I like terra firma - the more firma the less terra.

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can't grow roots just as the storm appears on the horizon.

The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible."---Each New Day

Look upon yourself as a tree planted beside the water, which bears its fruit in due season; the more it is shaken by the wind, the deeper it strikes its roots into the ground.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

I want to be reborn as a tree; that way I can plant my roots down, never move and can never be separated from the ones I love.

During difficult economic times, consumers gravitate toward the brands they know, the brands they love and trust.

No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

For so long as we condone injustice by a small but powerful group, we condone the destruction of all social stability, all real peace, all trust in man's good intentions toward his fellow man.

Any foundation you build, if trust is part of that foundation, whatever you're building, whatever you're creating is gonna have a rock-solid foundation.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

When you defend, try not to worry or become upset. Keep your cool and trust your position - it's all you've got.

Truth is the most powerful force on earth because it cannot be changed.

Emotions change. Truth doesn't. What will you build your life upon?

I always thought he looked like a postal worker who's about one write-up away from losing it completely." "Personally

That's the big picture, your happiness. And health. You should never care what a man thinks of you -- until he demonstrates to you that he cares about making you happy. If he isn't trying to make you happy, then send him back from "whence" he came because winning him over will have no benefit. At the end of the day, happines, joy...and yes...your emotional stability...those comprise the only measuring stick you really need to have.

Sometimes people change, said a voice inside him. And sometimes they don't.

But you do not need to worry, Cooper. What is mine, I keep.