Secure Quotes
1088 quotes by 856 authors
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Why is it that sometimes our prayers seem not to be answered? This is a manifestation of the Buddha's wisdom, so that we can deepen…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.
— Seamus Heaney
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Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.
— Paul Celan
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FALLING STARS: Do you remember still the falling stars that like swift horses through the heavens raced and suddenly leaped across the hurdles of our…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness of ego to…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them…
— David Hume
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By all means they try to hold me secure who love me in this world. But it is otherwise with thy love which is greater…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.
— H.G. Wells
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When a man likes you, he will be interested in finding out what you like. If he makes you happy, he feels more secure. Everything…
— Sherry Argov
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How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the words and my…
— W G Sebald
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She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew…
— James Joyce
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It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life. For my part, I should be…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be…
— George MacDonald
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It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! to hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths…
— Virginia Woolf
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There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure.
— Jim Butcher
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No one particular religion has been able to secure the exclusive rights for the power of prayer. No matter who you are, we all have…
— Masaru Emoto
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The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to…
— Albert Einstein
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...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them....…
— John Steinbeck
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The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean. Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor, and in the…
— Rumi
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