Grounded Quotes

“it was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself I found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to be whole.”
― Rupi Kaur

“McGregor went on to say, “Hamish, take word of this situation directly to Robert de Bruce, who is currently in the Glasgow area. Let him know that the Sassenach queen is at Tynemouth Priory and that we are going to capture her! She will fetch us a high ransom price from the Sassenach king!”
― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

“Fairness isn’t about charity. It’s smart business.”
― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

“If the glare of the public eye has become unbearable, our inner child may claim its rights and our bodily shadow might turn into our mental second self, become our anchor, make us stay grounded and grant us deepness and intensity. By retreating from the blaze of display into our substantial self, we gain rootedness, insight and new worldly wisdom. ("Not without my shadow")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“When the whole world is entrenched in the bunker of physical and often emotional isolation, only flexibility and ingenuity can revive us to remain grounded and imbibe the bolstering sunlight piercing through the canvas of chaos. (Because the world has corona)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“If we remain humble and grounded in nature's wisdom, our mind will guide us safely through the confines of unawareness and the blindness of ignorance. ("Why step out of nature ?")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“We need not be afraid of learning to know ourselves, fearing it would come down to disappointment. Remaining humble allows us to have compassion for ourselves for not being perfect. If we stay lucid and grounded, we steer clear of the steep cliffs of delusional self-importance or arrogance.( "I am on my own side, but I can listen" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“During energy deflation, we must first re-evaluate our values, motivations, and capacities because this helps us adopt a more grounded, realistic approach to life. By cultivating a creative, transformative power that shapes our destiny, we enforce our own in-depth agenda and avoid falling short and becoming "fallen stars."
("Feeling like a fallen star")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“By mistaking alluring shadows for reality and mixing up appearances that project idealized versions of ourselves or misleading images of others, we may be deceived by willful illusions instead of remaining grounded. ("Blind date")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Flying starts from the ground. The more grounded you are, the higher you fly.”
― J.R. Rim

“Get yourself grounded and you can navigate even the stormiest roads in peace.”
― Steve Goodier

“When only silence remains, we stand suspended between remembrance and presence in a fragile space between being grounded in the past and making sense of the present. ("Only silence remained")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“sodoyouthinkyoucouldtrustmetogotothedancetonight?" she blurted before losing her nerve.
Viktor and Viveka exchanged a quick glance.
Are they considering it? They are! They trust -
"No," they said together.
Frankie resisted the urge to spark. Or scream. Or threaten to go on a charging strike. She had prepared herself for this. It had always been a possibility. That's why she'd read 'Acting For Young Actors: The Ultimate Teenage Guide' by Mary Lou Belli and Dihah Lenney. So she could act like she understood their rejection. Act like she accepted it. And act like she would return to her room with grace. "Well, thanks for hearing me out," she said, kissing them on the cheeks and skipping off to bed. "Good night."
"Good night?" Viktor responded. "That's it? No argument?"
"No argument," Frankie said with a sweet smile. "You have to see this punishment through or you're not teaching me anything. I get it."
"O-kay." Viktor returned to his medical journal, shaking his head as if he couldn't quite believe what he was hearing.
"We love you." Viveka blew another kiss.
"I love you, too." Frankie blew two back.
Time for Plan B.”
― Lisi Harrison, Monster High

“In a flash of wonderment she saw firm, continuous ground under her feet, stretching from back then to right now and on and on as far as her eyes could take her.”
― Ann Brashares, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

“Centering, however, is easier said than done. This I learned from a ceramics class I once took. The teacher made throwing a pot look easy, but the thing is, it takes lots of precision and skill. You slam the ball of clay down in the absolute center of the pottery wheel, and with steady hands you push your thumb into the middle of it, spreading it wider a fraction of an inch at a time. But every single time I tried to do it, I only got so far before my pot warped out of balance, and every attempt to fix it just made it worse, until the lip shredded, the sides collapsed, and I was left with what the teacher called “a mystery ashtray,” which got hurled back into the clay bucket.

So what happens when your universe begins to get off balance, and you don’t have any experience with bringing it back to center? All you can do is fight a losing battle, waiting for those walls to collapse, and your life to become one huge mystery ashtray.”
― Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep

“Did you know that birds do not land because they're tired? It is a rememberance. They know and have always known that their liberation depends on their ability to recall the ground.”
― Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

“I prefer the ground over the pedestal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“Reading a physical book grounds me. Sitting still and taking in all of its words comfortably plants me into the present moment.”
― Robin S. Baker

“When you start feeling an overwhelming amount of energy pile up on you, that is indicating that you need to put your devices down, relax, and detox. Take a step back for a second and get back to a grounded space.”
― Robin S. Baker

“Just because life is unstable doesn’t mean you have to be.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Sit on the floor once in a while, on the floor, in the fields, on the streets, you'll remember, what it means to be human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“If there is a moral in this book, it is not my fault. If there is social relevance, it crept in without alerting me, in which case I would have hit it with a stick." (from preface to a later edition of the novel)”
― Paul St. Pierre, Breaking Smith's Quarter Horse

“No matter how crazy it may feel, I found that following my intuitive hunch is always my best bet. When we are grounded, it will never steer us in the wrong direction. Acting as our guiding light and divine compass. So do not question it. Instead, place your full trust in this.”
― Robin S. Baker

“Whenever they grounded me, I would sneak out the windows. Whenever they took my keys, I would arrange a ride with friends. Whenever they took my phone, I would use the house phone. Whenever they restricted me, I would leave and not come home for days at a time. Whenever they tightened their grip, I would get a job and go to wrestling tournaments, finding every legitimate excuse to get out of the house, evade responsibility, and keep partying. I was completely uncooperative and manipulated everything in my favor.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“The advice from friends, family, and acquaintances is excellent, but having the discernment to go directly to God will elevate tons of heartache.”
― Sandra E. Jackson, Daily Sprinkles of Wisdom : Biblically Based Devotions

“Returning to your essence doesn’t mean escaping the world – it means arriving fully in it.”
― Dirk Hessel, Beautiful Human!: Discovering the Essence of Life

“I grew up in a 20ft/20ft one-room house, used to walk an hour to get to school - and all of it has kept me grounded. Luxury stunts growth, obscurity establish greatness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“But in the muck—with salamanders, fairies, and dragons—I am coming to understand, in a visceral way, that being grounded is not a punishment; it is a privilege.”
― Leigh Ann Henion, Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark

“Exploring consciousness means expanding our vision, but it also means honouring the ground beneath our feet. The vast and the ordinary are not opposites. They are partners.”
― Donna Goddard, Consciousness Rising

“Everybody so caught up in this and that, that you don't notice what's right in front of you”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, Monday's Not Coming