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Quotes About Safety

The outer critic is the counterpart of the self-esteem-destroying inner critic. It uses the same programs of perfectionism and endangerment against others that your inner critic uses against yourself. Via its all-or-none programming, the outer critic rejects others because they are never perfect and cannot be guaranteed to be safe.
~ Unknown
Perfectionism. My perfectionism arose as an attempt to gain safety and support in my dangerous family. Perfection is a self-persecutory myth. I do not have to be perfect to be safe or loved in the present. I am letting go of relationships that require perfection. I have a right to make mistakes. Mistakes
~ Unknown
Create vivid pictures of attainable futures that are safer, friendlier, and more prosperous. Cite
~ Unknown
When children are asked to "turn the other cheek," "put on a happy face," or "strike back" in situations where they are experiencing daily terror, they do not learn character. On the contrary, they lose self-confidence and a sense of safety necessary to succeed.
~ Peter A. Levine
They may avoid any activity, person or other reminder that resembles what originally frightened them.
~ Peter A. Levine
help to create an environment of relative safety, an atmosphere that conveys refuge, hope and possibility.
~ Peter A. Levine
you have practiced the exercises, you realize that with time, intention, safety and awareness, unpleasant sensations do and will change.
~ Peter A. Levine
The critical idea here is that when we are vulnerable, we benefit most from feeling a connection with a calm person who is confident of what to do and is able to convey a sense of safety and compassion. Your child will feel safe if he knows that you are strong enough to withstand (contain) his shock without becoming overwhelmed yourself.
~ Peter A. Levine
Like every other guide or wildlife lover who is eventually eaten or trampled, I felt that I had a bond with this herd that would make me safe with them. I wanted to try my luck again.
~ Peter Allison
The fish might well have disappeared already, but Brody wasn't willing to gamble lives on the possibility: the odds might be good, but the stakes were prohibitively high.
~ Peter Benchley
Don't go into the water if you're bleeding—at all, from anything, anywhere on your body.
~ Peter Benchley
We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them.
~ Peter Chernin
we exist to protect the majority so they can run around living their lives as decently and as best they can.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Doesn't it have any safety systems?" she yelled at Ranto as she curved around again. He shrugged. "Drive safe," he suggested.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Security wants to verify the place safe first, make sure the terrorists didn't leave any nasty little booby traps behind.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
The outcome of Twenty-Eight was that any upright citizen could buy and use weapons-grade material as long as they did not utilize said material to fabricate a weapon.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
There must be so many humans spread across the galaxy now; it isn't hard to think they found one star that's safe from the enemy.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
How many terrorist attacks have there been in the last fifty years? The last seventy-five, even?" "Not many," Callum agreed grudgingly.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Urban violence is in decline for the first time in decades, Cal.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
For now, we must reprogram the hyperdrive. There are a great many safety limiters to be removed.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
For my children. For you. So that you could be safe. So that what happened to them," he nods toward the photo of his mother and his sister, "would never happen to you. Because it will never really go away, this thing. It goes underground for a generation or two, but always reemerges.
~ Unknown
A gun can be dangerous. But a gun can protect you, you can hunt for food with it - you know, the tool itself is a tool. The intention of the party using the tool is a part of the process, right? You know: the knife cuts the steak, stabs the person, saves somebody from danger, cuts somebody out of a car.
~ Peter Guber
An oxygen gauge.
~ Peter Høeg
Because at night there is a comfort in moving darkly. In slipping through, shadow to shadow. Can't say why. Maybe because we were hunters, all of us. The way a cat moves in the shadows. Or a wolf. The instinctive safety in that.
~ Peter Heller