Accepting that death is absolutely safe is like taking off a tight shoe. – Pat Rodegast
Be free from all dualities and from all anxieties for gain and safety, and be established in the self. – The Vedas
Failure is always a safe, familiar, no-risk refuge, a known experience; it focuses no new of testing responsibilities upon one. Success, on the other hand, is unknown territory and a high-risk business; the very life-style it imposes if full of relentless demand for even better performances and achievements. – Alan Olmstead
Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety. – Seth Godin
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be. – Joseph Campbell
For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. – Rumi
He who is safe is not secure. – Benjamin Franklin
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody. It saves so much trouble. – Rudyard Kipling
I don’t mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I’ve saved all year. – Victor Borge
If there is a fear of failing, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping. – Carl Jung
If you stop marketing to save money, you might as well stop the clock to save time. – Henry Ford
It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, profitable, and dull. – Joseph Conrad
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save. They just stand there shining. – Anne Lamott
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. – Buddha
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again. Fear must be overcome again and again. – Abraham Maslow
Security is a kind of death. – Tennessee Williams
Security is not having things. It’s handling things. – Susan Jeffers
Ships in harbor are safe, but that’s not what ships are built for. – John Shedd
Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority. – Martin Luther King Jr
There is no security on this earth. There is only opportunity. – Douglas MacArthur
To stay young, to save the world, break the mirror. – Nanao Sakeki
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain
What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act – and an authentic life. It may be a short one, but it is an authentic one, and that’s a lot better than those short lives full of boredom. The principal loss is security. Another is respect from the community. But you gain the respect of another community, the one that is worth having the respect of. – Joseph Campbell
You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. – Fyodor Dostoevsky
You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. – Anne Lamott