emotional buoyancy Quotes

hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.

Artemis: I am not buoyed by that. Foaly: You are not supposed to be buoyed by that. You are supposed to be equalized. Mulch: I'm pretty sure that both of you just made really horrible jokes. But I'm not sure because I think you broke my funny bone.

Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust.

In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface.

Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love.

Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.

The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.

There was something in the pages of these books that had the power to make him feel better about things, a life raft to cling to before the dark currents of memory washed him downstream again, and on brighter days, he could even see himself going on this way for some time. A small but passable life. And then, of course, the end of the world happened.