D. H. Lawrence Quotes

I stand upon a block of stillness. It is more secure than any sidewalk. I bring with me my own sidewalk.

And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into fog. Fog closing in on all sides. I didn't know where I was at all.

He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm.

The heart of standing is you cannot fly.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

People are looking for stability in a shaky world. They want something they can get hold of that's firm and sure and an anchor in the midst of all of this instability in which they're living.

On the feet, on the ground, I have all the bases covered.

An island of surety in a changing world.

Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!

I think about how much depends upon a best friend. Then you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out of bed and you put your feet on the ground and you stand up. You don't scoot to the edge of the bed and look down to make sure the floor is there. The floor is always there. Until it's not.

I stay on terra firma: the more firm, the less terror.

Hee stands not surely, that never slips.

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.

Home is, in the end, not just the place where you sleep, but the place where you stand.

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

I guess I crave stability.

People want security in this insecure world.

You can have some stable things in life, and so long as you're not away from those things for too long, they can help keep you grounded.

Uncertainty is the enemy of prosperity.

Hope and certainty are the enemies of peace.

You better have an anchor in life. It doesn't matter if you're a Division I head football coach or Joe Schmo from Okemoh. Bad things happen. If you're not anchored, you're going to be washed away.

People spend their entire lives trying to construct something to grab onto: a family, a home, a business. Rarely does anyone seem to manage to get much ground under their feet.

Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?

Nothing before, nothing behind; The steps of faith Fall on the seeming void, and find The Rock beneath.

Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity of permanence is sought in every direction, in virtue, in relationship, in action, in experience, in knowledge, in outward and inward things. To find security and be secure is the everlasting cry. It is this insistent demand that breeds fear.