Quotes About Settling

No one except your husband knows of the cautiousness at the heart of your life. Your adulthood has been a progressive retreat from curiosity and wonder, an endless series of delays and procrastinations. You wanted to be so much, once, but life kept on getting in the way... You settled. Shunned creativity, flight, risk, never had the courage to give a dream, any dream, a go.

Clearly I did not inherit whatever gene it is that makes it so that when you linger in a place you start to put down roots.

In life, most people surrender what is possible for what is comfortable.

Most people settle in life with no satisfaction. Winners are satisfied without ever settling.

There's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle until the water clears otherwise it will taste sour. (paraphrased)

Songs choose their hour and their own season. When your tune's tin, there is a reason. The tone of a tune is your heart's mettle, and there's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle, or you'll sound sour as a broken bell." I

I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.

Then I will let her waters settle and will make her rivers flow like oil,í declares the Lord GOD.