Quotes About Security

There are six ways of describing this kind of cool loneliness. They are: less desire, contentment, avoiding unnecessary activity, complete discipline, not wandering in the world of desire, and not seeking security from one's discursive thoughts.

warrior accepts that we can never know what will happen to us next. We can try to control the uncontrollable by looking for security and predictability, always hoping to be comfortable and safe. But the truth is that we can never avoid uncertainty. This not-knowing is part of the adventure. It's also what makes us afraid.

The mind is always seeking zones of safety, and these zones of safety are continually falling apart.

To think that we can finally get it all together is unrealistic. To seek for some lasting security is futile.

Sabemos que todo es impermanente, que todo acaba agotándose. Aunque aceptemos esta verdad con el intelecto, emocionalmente nos produce una profunda aversión. Deseamos que todo sea permanente y esperamos que así sea. Nuestra tendencia natural es buscar seguridad, creer que podemos encontrarla.

Trying to get lasting security teaches us a lot, because if we never try to do it, we never notice that it can't be done. Turning our minds toward the dharma speeds up the process of discovery. At every turn we realize once again that it's completely hopeless—we can't get any ground under our feet. The difference between theism

The rich believe that their money will insulate them from setbacks and frustrations, and that's one of the absurdist expectations of all.

And if I see you step foot on my property again, I'll do more than make a phone call, " he says, waving the baseball bat around menacingly.

The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety.

I do Jiu Jitsu so I can protect you when I fight you.

We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate, and I became quite good at it, because I had something to prove. And more than anything, I needed to feel safe.

If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.

Kempo is for the street first; everything else is secondary.

All's well with thee if thou art in just hands.

Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.

I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.

Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

Attitudes toward other creatures is conditioned by one's level of security within the universe.

That's my attitude on the military. I don't like telling the enemy what I'm doing.

The conclusion to be drawn is that I am happiest writing in small rooms. They make me feel comfortable and secure. And it took me years to figure out that I need to write in a corner. Like a small animal burrowing into its hole, I shift furniture around, and back myself into a cozy corner, with my back to the wall … and then I can write.

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