Finding Stability Quotes

I thought ‘I wonder what will happen if I try and root myself somewhere?‘ Look back over the past eight years.

When I left home at sixteen I bought a small rug. It was my roll-up world. Whatever room, whatever temporary place I had, I unrolled the rug. It was a map of myself. Invisible to others, but held in the rug, were all the places I had stayed - for a few weeks, for a few months. On the first night anywhere new I liked to lie in bed and look at the rug to remind myself that I had what I needed even though what I had was so little. Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won’t help you.

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

I think we just have to find consistency and go from there.

From a guy that still doesn't have his foot in the world, I feel pretty grounded as long as I have music.

The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.

Life is like fording a river, stepping from one slippery stone to another, and you must rejoice every time you don't lose your balance, and learn to laugh at all the times you do.

I have a belief that life isn't about balance, because balance is perfection Rather, it's about catching the ball before it hits the floor.

I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.