Stuck Quotes

“Whenever something bad happens, keep calm, take a few deep breaths and shift the focus to something positive.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Faith is the solvent that sets you free.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.”
― Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

“when you have something to do life will not allow you to move foward until you do it.”
― Iyanla Vanzant, Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through

“If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there. We become like mushrooms, living in the dark, with poop up to our chins. If you want to know only what you already know, you're dying. You're saying: Leave me alone; I don't mind this little rathole. It's warm and dry. Really, it's fine.

When nothing new can get in, that's death. When oxygen can't find a way in, you die. But new is scary, and new can be disappointing, and confusing - we had this all figured out, and now we don't.

New is life.”
― Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

“But there was a difference between being stuck and choosing to stay. Between being found and finding yourself.”
― Martina Boone, Compulsion

“The people I'm stuck with in my life now aren't sucking the life out of me, they just suck.”
― Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca

“The chains that break you, are the chains that make you. And the chains that make you, are the chains you break.”
― Anthony Liccione

“You are stuck with me till the world falls to pieces, and if we’re not still standing even then we’ll still find a way to be together…”
― Ottilie Weber, End of the Line

“I'm stuck. I'm stuck in yesterday, and you're tomorrow.”
― Rebecca Donovan, Out of Breath

“What if you were always stuck in one place, your mind spinning and unable to go forward like tires clenched in mud, because the answers wouldn't reveal themselves to you?”
― Will Lavender, Obedience

“What if I'm stuck. Here. Forever.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“He wondered if this, more than guilt, was what had been holding him back. It wasn't that he was punishing himself as much as it was that he didn't really want anything anymore. But was that true? Did he really not want anything? What did he want to do? What did he want, period?”
― Heidi Cullinan, Dance With Me

“Nothing that is good can become stuck – and if it is stuck, it can’t be any good!”
― Silvia Hartmann

“We are stuck-up about love and we are stuck-up in the idea of being in-love.”
― Ann Marie Aguilar

“the only drinking problem I've ever had, is figuring out why I'm still stuck in this salad spinner”
― Josh Stern, And That’s Why I’m Single

“Something needs to shift,' you cry.
'I can't deal with it the way it is.'

If something needs to shift,
shift something.

Anything.

Even something that doesn't work
will cause action, and in action
you will figure out more than
when you are stuck...

When you're stuck...
it's hard to get moving again.

When you feel like you can't move,
any movement will shake things up.”
― Shellen Lubin

“It’s not, I’m damned if I do, I’m damned if I don’t. It’s, I love myself if I do, I love myself if I don’t. Minor shift, major results!”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“The Earth’s inhabitants have been stuck in the grips of the lower dimensions for thousands of years. We were unable to embrace change having little awareness of our true spiritual nature.”
― Jennifer Lynch

“He didn't want anything to change, ever. And so nothing changed for anyone in her family. Ever.”
― Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada

“We weren’t just looking at how we could help others; we were looking into our own lives as well. Whenever we were together, we would talk about what was preventing us from from honoring God, what things were keeping us stuck, or holding us captive. They would share portions of God’s Word that gave me clarity on why I had become stuck in certain areas, as well as how God could help me heal and move forward.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“They shared about the beautiful and unique plans that God has for each individual. Up until recently, I hadn’t had many hopes or plans. My life had been like a car stuck in a snowy ditch in the middle of the night. I knew I was stuck, but I didn’t know how to get out of it. When these guys came along, they had a tow truck, chains, and a spotlight that shed light on all the problem areas. They didn’t make me feel guilty about my problems; instead, they jumped out into the cold and helped me start digging. Not only that, but they were teaching me to see the hopes and plans that God had for others, they were teaching me to jump out in the snow and start digging as well.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“I knew that classifying one drug as better or more tolerable than another was stupid as well. Weed was the reason I had become an addict in the first place. It had always been one of the main substances that kept me stuck, and one of the main excuses that kept me returning to this empty lifestyle. I just had so many years of bad habits that my very best and most genuine efforts to thwart addiction were not enough. I was the dog that returns to its vomit—the sinner who can’t help but return to his sin.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“As you travel the highways and byways of your mind, don't get stuck on a one-way street that leads to nowhere. - Sanjo Jendayi”
― Sanjo Jendayi

“I always have been that way ...
would rather dare, try, make mistakes,
fall down and screw up
than spend any time stuck in an image
of what it is to be good and/or right 
and/or strong and/or perfect...

I'd rather be the fool.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Mo Xi, for me, the way up is a dead end. I have nowhere to go - I can only fumble toward hell.”
― Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, Remnants of Filth: Yuwu (Novel) Vol. 1

“People make mistakes. As often as not, the mistakes aren't deliberate or personal.
If you want to, you can let go of any feelings of resentment, of regret, of anger. You could let all these things get you down, fizzle away internally like some emotional acid making you ill and resentful and stuck. Try instead to let them go, embrace them as character forming and in general as positive rather than negative.
There is no going back, only forwards. Make it a motto for life - keep moving forwards.”
― Richard Templar, Templar: Rules of Life 5e

“Sometimes you simply don’t flow within the same constellation.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“And I touch. Not because I want to feel, but because I’m looking to see if this is real.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“You know, when you're stuck in the same old routine in the city, it's easy to get caught up in the grind and forget what life is really about. But then you take a step back, get out of town, and watch the sunset, and it's like a whole new world opens up.”
― Tadas Petrovas