Safely Quotes (page 8)

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• feeling
• heart
• moments

At moments like this I envy those who have found a safe haven in which to bestow their hearts; or perhaps I envy them for having a heart to bestow. I often feel that I myself am without one, and possess in its stead merely a heart shaped stone. Margaret Atwood

• spiritual
• writing
• comforting

I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy. James Boswell

• positive energy
• comfort zone
• people

People have to be secure in order to transfer their money to you. Never forget that. How you make them secure is to not come at them from above (action, yang) telling them how marvelous the product is and how marvelous you are. Instead, work on their comfort zone first, keeping silent for the most part, leading things along effortlessly by asking questions (nonaction, yin). When you do get to talk, be sure to tell them that everything is cozy, safe, and secure. People need to hear that. ... Stuart Wilde

• culture
• yours
• trappings

You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it. Chuck Palahniuk

• night
• sleep
• men

We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us. Winston Churchill

• temptation
• things
• resistance

It was not a safe thing to lead Joe into temptation; he had no resistance to it at all. John Steinbeck

• soul
• time
• time love

But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed. Federico Garcia Lorca

• happy him
• him
• dream

Watch over our child. Guide him safely from the ways of harm. Keep happy his heart, brave his soul, and rosy his cheeks. Guard with your life his hopes and dreams, for he is all that we have, all that we are, and all that we will ever be. William Joyce

• humanity
• may
• society

When principles are so absurd and so destructive of human society, it may safely be averred, that the more sincere and the more disinterested they are, they only become the more ridiculous and the more odious. David Hume

• may
• manly
• rely

A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity. Frederick Douglass

• good
• god
• believe yourself

I regard you as one of those men who would stand and smile at their torturer while he cuts their entrails out, if only they have found faith or God. Find it and you will live. You have long needed a change of air. Suffering, too, is a good thing. Suffer! Maybe Nikolay is right in wanting to suffer. I know you don't believe in it—but don't be over-wise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don't be afraid—the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet... Fyodor Dostoevsky

• art
• work
• makes

what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art Vladimir Nabokov

• surprise
• dead
• never

You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead. L. M. Montgomery

• water
• thoughts
• back

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water... Peter Benchley

• life
• mistake
• error

Besides, life isn't meant to be safe. It's only in our mistakes, our errors, and our faults that we grow and truly live. Glenn Beck