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Quotes About Grounding

Reminding myself of all that I have to be thankful for really helps ground me and keeps me from tipping over into that negative place.
~ Nikki DeLoach
SHORE AND GROUND Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, but don't move the way fear makes you move. Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. RUMI
~ Anne Lamott
Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, but don't move the way fear makes you move. Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
~ Anne Lamott
I found going to school when I was modeling very grounding. It's really kept my perspective on bigger things in my life.
~ Lily Cole
I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they can also be fantastical, so it's nice to have a setting that grounds them a little bit.
~ John Green
For me the bare feet are grounding. I'm connected to the Earth in a way that I cannot be any other way.
~ Rhiannon Giddens
I am only this successful because I'm so good at grounding myself.
~ Adam Peaty
Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.
~ Jennifer Ellison
It just seems like a religion that is perfect for people who feel like they need a grounding, who feels that the world has run off on them. I've discussed this with Scientologists, and they don't disagree. So, for a certain type of person, that's great.
~ Russell Crowe
I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.
~ Shepard Smith
I wish I got a little bit more time at home. I am away a lot and being around my loved ones and friends is good for me. It grounds me. It's something I need to make more time for. I think I need a little more balance.
~ Katherine Jenkins
When we had Brian Cox in 'Super Troopers,' we learned that when you put a great actor in the center of our lunacy, it grounds everything.
~ Jay Chandrasekhar
Paying attention to my breath makes me happy to be alive. And that really grounds me during a performance.
~ Jessie Reyez
I love being in the woods, when I can just walk barefoot in the grass and just sit down and breathe. I love that so much.
~ Jessie Reyez
When you do television, you're filming out of sequence sometimes. You have to ground yourself very quickly in the character and in the work and in the words. I think theater allowed me that sort of sharp, quick focus to do that.
~ Adrienne C. Moore
Without grounding, it's easy to embrace the 'baller' lifestyle: dropping out of tech, throwing money at cars, boats and real estate, and slipping into a cycle of spending and indulgence.
~ Ryan Holmes
Ohhh, that feels lovely. The earth knows exactly how to hold us if we just let it.
~ Armistead Maupin
Shifting your energy from an overactive mental activity to a grounding physical activity often jump-starts your creativity as well.
~ Sonia Choquette
Time and time again the mast has been struck by flashes with a potential of 10 million volts, only to be dissipated by the intricate steel structure into the ground.
~ John Tauranac
Earth heals me better than any medicine.
~ Monty Don
I think it's very important to find something that you do that helps center you.
~ Nafessa Williams
My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.
~ Maureen O'Hara
Lately, I've become accustomed to the way The ground opens up and envelopes me Each time I go out to walk the dog.
~ Amiri Baraka
What I do with my kids is - and I think they probably do ignore us - is No Alcohol. If they're drunk they will be grounded for time immemorial.
~ Ayelet Waldman