Quotes About Grounded

She tried to teach her children to be positive--to dream but to also do it with their feet on the ground. If you let loose that balloon, you will lose sight of it, she said. The best way to enjoy it is to hold tight to the string and plant your feet on a good solid path.

I think the success that I have is due to hard work and destiny. It is important to stay grounded and not take things for granted.

At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.

Someone once told me that something they really liked about me was that they thought that I was really down to earth and not high-maintenance. I think that was cool. It's important to stay grounded.

On the one hand, I've had such a normal upbringing with my mum, who has kept me grounded, but on the other, the wild experiences through my dad.

We don't have a pedigree, but we have big hearts, determination, and guts. The Carney family is grounded and there's a lot of love.

I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.

I think I'm pretty much down to earth, and I'm not really way, way out there.

I know certain actors who have done very well. They are still down to earth.

My mom is seriously down to earth.

I've never been a dreamer.

The magic that works, to me, is the magic that feels completely grounded and real and tangible.

Levity is that unseen force that lifts you skyward, whereas gravity is the opposing force that pulls you earthward. Unchecked levity leaves you flighty, ungrounded, and unreal. Unchecked gravity leaves you collapsed in a heap of misery," she writes. "Yet when properly combined, these two opposing forces leave you buoyant."15

Coupling the relaxation and sense of safety associated with that imagery with the sensations of the body can ground a person in the visceral reality of tranquility and clarity. It is this grounded place that can serve as a vital resource of safety and strength during the explorations ahead.

I love Captain Cold. I have him on my door at the office. He's grounded; he doesn't want to rule the world. He's not necessarily driven by ego, which a lot of villains are.

Don't be so sure," said Gamache. "It's a little humbling to realize the pedestal isn't quite so high after all." Brebeuf chuckled. "Welcome to earth, Armand. It's a little dirty down here.

I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveler.

Don't search dreams in the sky, they need strong footage on the earth.

Don't search Dreams in the sky, they need strong footage on earth.

You try to live the experience but keep your feet on the ground, not let it go to your head, because that's when you start making mistakes.

The persons I speak of are not thoughtless about religion: they think a good deal about it. They are not ignorant of religion: they know the outlines of it pretty well. But their great defect is that they are not "rooted and grounded" in their faith. Too often they have picked up their knowledge second hand, from being in religious families, or from being trained in religious .ways, but have never worked it out by their own inward experience

Our power comes from the earth

I have grounded my preaching upon the literal word; he that pleases may follow me; he that will not may stay.

Our bodies, minds, and spirits stand in ancient communion with the soil.