Quotes About Stability

If a mother identifies with every fall of her child and takes personal pride in its every success, her self-image will be as unstable as her child's balance. She finds stability when she realizes that she is not her child, and watches it with love and interest—but as a separate being.

Stability grows as I learn to accept what I cannot control and take control of what I can.

Freedom from stress does not necessarily involve giving up anything, but rather being able to let go of anything, when necessary, and know that one will still be all right. It comes from being more independent—not necessarily more solitary, but more reliant on one's own inner resources for stability.

Perhaps the most indispensable tool for human beings in modern times is the ability to remain calm in the midst of rapid and unsettling changes.

I don't think anyone's Self 2 needs improvement from birth to death. It has always been fine. I, more than anyone, need to remember that. Yes, our backhands can improve, and I'm sure my writing can get better; certainly our skills in relating to each other on the planet can improve. But the cornerstone of stability is to know that there is nothing wrong with the essential human being.

He who stands on his tiptoes does not stand firm...

For two hundred and fifty years the kzinti had not attacked human space. They had nothing to attack with. For two hundred and fifty years men had not attacked the kzinti worlds; and no kzin could understand it. Men confused them terribly.

The majority is always sane

Yerinden oynayan akl? bir daha yuvas?na geri dönmedi. Kafas?n?n içinde be?ik gibi salland? durdu.

You need organization to organize your thoughts to optimize your success, structure to secure your stability and strength to make your best choices, and focus because where focus goes, success grows.

Horses stay the same from the day they are born until the day they die. . . . They are only changed by the way people treat them.

Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.

People like to think on marriage or love as something that weighs you down. Holds you back. Marriage is an anchor, but in the best ways it can be said.

Our ship of dreams must be anchored, or else it will float away!

At the Richardson house were overstuffed sofas so deep you could sink into them as if into a bubble bath. Credenzas. Heavy sleigh beds. Once you owned an enormous chair like this, Pearl thought, you would simply have to stay put. You would have to plant roots and make the place that held this chair your home.

Once you owned an enormous chair like this, Pearl thought, you would simply have to stay put. You would have to plant roots and make the place that held this chair your home.

?ngiliz hodgâmd?r, heyecans?zd?r. Bir millet de?il, bir y???n. Y???n? kolayca kand?rabilirsiniz, duygular? hiçbir temele dayanmaz. Y???n dü?ünmez, mâruz kal?r. Nezleye yakalan?r gibi tutulur bir fikre. Ate?i yükselince arslanla??r, nöbet geçince her mukaddesi unutuverir. Büyük bir milletin duygular? ölçülü, düzenli, devaml?d?r.

Stay calm and assertive

animals don't follow unstable pack leaders; only humans promote, follow, and praise instability. Only humans have leaders who can lie and get away with it. Around the world, most of the pack leaders we follow today are not stable. Their followers may not know it, but Mother Nature is far too honest to be fooled by angry, frustrated, jealous, competitive, stubborn, or other negative energy—even if it is masked by a politician's smile. That

We cannot be truly peaceful unless we have the invincible quality of peace within us; a feeble or temporary peacefulness could always be disturbed. If we try to be kind and peaceful in a naive way, encountering a different or unexpected situation might interfere with our awareness of peace because that peace has no strength in it, has no character. So peace must be stable, deeprooted, and solid.

Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.

Prophets look at the world as finite, and people as constrained by their environment. Wizards see possibilities as inexhaustible, and humans as wily managers of the planet. One views growth and development as the lot and blessing of our species; others regard stability and preservation as our future and our goal. Wizards regard Earth as a toolbox, its contents freely available for use; Prophets think of the natural world as embodying an overarching order that should not casually be disturbed.

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

There was a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever.