Sturdiness Means Quotes & Sayings

Our liabilities pose the problem of inadequacy; our our assets, the challenge of responsibility. Our strengths or virtues can make us feel alone, alienated, cut off from the common herd, a target for envy and hostility, and our desire to belong can overcome any desire to actualise our highest potential. — Nathaniel Branden

It is right it should be so:
Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go. — William Blake

A chicken doesn't fly like other birds, but it is still a bird. — Jessica Khoury

I am sure we should not shut our hearts against the healing influences that nature offers us. But I understand your feeling. I think we all experience the same thing. We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us. — L.M. Montgomery

In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still; it goes deeper and makes for itself a deeper groove, delves. Delve meansa 'dig with a spade'; it means hard work. In talk your mind can be stretched, widened, exhilarated to heights but it cannot be deepened; you have to deepen it yourself.
It needs sturdiness. You will be lonely, you will be depressed; you must expect it; if you were training your body it would ache and be tired. It is worth it. There is a Hindu proverb which says: 'You only grow when you are alone'. — Rumer Godden

Ideals are like tuning forks: sound them often to bring your life up to standard pitch. — S.D. Gordon

A dishonest yes is a no to yourself. — Byron Katie

In our family, you don't get a childhood. We're too busy trying to dominate the world. — Gordon Korman

My transition from not being a writer to being one was instantaneous, like the change from docile bank clerk to fanged monster in "B" movies. — Margaret Atwood

Home is where you are. I would go anywhere for you if you wanted me there. — Mariana Zapata

Conversation is the wall we build between ourselves and other people, too often with tired words like used and broken bottles which, catching the sunlight as they lie embedded in the wall, are mistaken for jewels. — Janet Frame

Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society. — Michael Burgess

When I was about ten my favourite article in the huge and mouldering Encyclopedia Britannica we owned (the ninth edition) was the one on Lycanthropy. (Yes, I had a favourite 1890s Britannica article when I was ten. I am now aware this is not entirely usual.) — Neil Gaiman

The welfare state may be well-intentioned, but it is a Ponzi scheme — Dennis Prager