Seeking Safety Quotes

#1. We're walking contradictions, seeking safety and predictability on one hand and thriving on diversity on the other.

Esther Perel

#2. On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#3. He knows very well what underlies the compulsive side of his nature; it is the wish to escape that which he can't comprehend, seeking safety in an unbendable estrangement.

Carol Shields

#4. We can't save ourselves from fear by seeking safety, because safety always means there's something to be safe from-in other words, something to fear. The way out of fear isn't safety. It's freedom.

Martha Beck

#5. We are all doomed to seek our own happiness; we can't help ourselves. We are all, the cruel and the gentle alike, condemned to seeking that happiness in the dark. We use our need as the blind use a walking stick, to determine the safety of every forward step.

Jesse Browner

#6. He is a perfect genius, god and devil combined, the greatest marvel of the age.

Luo Guanzhong

#7. He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in seeking succor meets with ruin.

Periander

#8. You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.

Carol Plum-Ucci

#9. Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

Ugo Betti

#10. What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don't like it.

Alan W. Watts

#11. I can't do comedy that is cutting and vicious. If I knew I'd said something that was going to make someone feel bad, well, that supersedes everything.

Eugene Levy

#12. How many years will you crawl through this castle, so satisfied and still wanting more?

Roger McGuinn

#13. We have been trained to broadcast our successes and hide our failures. But the truth is this: our failures humanise us, and they connect us to one another.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#14. Racism in impenetrable. Staying in America means always fighting. For our own sanity and safety, we must go.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#15. Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.

Ingrid Newkirk