Quotes About Stability

Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.

You have to be like a turtle, she thought; you have to figure out how to bring your home along with you.

teenagers and toddlers were very much the same. They both liked to leave their mother, so long as their mother did not move.

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. —Stanislaw J. Lec

like everything, sanity came more easily with practice.

No ripping the barre out of the wall.

The Baby-sitters Club was (almost) back to normal.

Happiness, said he, must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.

The pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

Language is the work of man, of a being from whom permanence and stability can not be derived.

Let nothing disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, All things are passing away: God never changes. Patience obtains all things. Whoever has God lacks nothing; God alone suffices.

The sky the sky- same as it always was.

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.

I don't want everything to change.

She had made her choice, and this was it, where she felt safe, in a world she could, for the most part, control. Page 328

It seemed like things either stayed just the same or changed irrevocably. And like most times I found myself with hard choices, I just wished there was something clear and easy, right in between.

feet were the rootiest part of the human body.

Now: the first requirement of stability in a human being was that the said human being should really desire to exist. This is what Spinoza says.

Sei gefühllos! Ein leichtbewegtes Herz Ist ein elend Gut Auf der wankenden Erde.

I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land [to] run away or break.

Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.

Every fat [vat] must stand upon his bottom.

The winning formula for success in investing is owning the entire stock market through an index fund, and then doing nothing. Just stay the course.