Quotes About Stability

which, according to San Juan, is the mystery of the great alchemistical transmutation; the attainment of the true stability of the psychic life. Without this internal stability, all other labor is in vain.

the cynical could afford the luxury of their cynicism because of the stability of the system they mocked.

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.

Nobody changes. Nobody gets hurt.

The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.

Everybody wants a little bit of land, not much. Jus' som'thin' that was his. Som'thin' he could live on and there couldn't nobody throw him off of it.

Consider the blundering anarchic system of the United States the stupidity of some of its lawmakers, the violent reaction, the slowness of its ability to change. Twenty-five key men destroyed could make the Soviet Union stagger, but we could lose our congress, our president, and our general staff and nothing much would have happened. We would go right on. In fact we might be better for it.

Things do not change with a change of scene.

You cannot cut the ground from under a man and expect him to act normally.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Next to love, balance is the most important thing.

when coaches or parents make consistency their foundation, everyone around them becomes more comfortable and everyone around them has a greater opportunity to grow.

Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy.

For mindfulness is the knowing quality of awareness, the core property of mind itself. It is strengthened by sustaining, and it is self-sustaining. Mindfulness is the field of knowing. When that field is stabilized by calmness and one-pointedness, the arising of the knowing itself is sustained, and the quality of the knowing strengthened.

If you let yourself be blown to and fro, you lose touch with your root. If you let restlessness move you, you lose touch with who you are. LAO-TZU, Tao-te-Ching

Stand firm on the solid rock!

Jesus is the seat belt of the roller coaster ride that doesn't let me fall

Family is the only anchor that will hold in a choppy sea.

Family is what grounds you.

In everything I do, my children come first, and my husband. I just think it's so important to maintain family stability.

I have to be very careful about how often I drag my family to places. They need some stability in their lives.

Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.

When you've got a new family, any kind of security you can have is great.

I think for me it's just a matter of staying keyed into my lifelong friends from New York and family. And, you know, I'm pretty solitary. I'm a homebody. So I don't get out much to get into trouble