Security proverbs

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◆ If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

- Henry David Thoreau99

◆ Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

- Benjamin Franklin99

◆ If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected .

- Sun Tzu99

◆ He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

- C.S. Lewis99

◆ I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.

- Roger Zelazny99

◆ Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

- James Baldwin99

◆ The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

- Maya Angelou99

◆ This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her breastbone...a security blanket, an ace up her sleeve. She might never use it, but she would always feel its presence like a swelling secret stone, and that way when she let go of the rage, she would not feel nearly as empty.

- Jodi Picoult99

◆ All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But I don't want it anymore, I want something else now, something warm and sheltering, something I can turn to, regardless of what I do, regardless of who I become. Something that will just be there, always, like tomorrow's sky. That's what I want now, and I think it's what you should want too. But it will be too late soon. We'll become too set to change. If we don't take our chance now, another may never come for either of us.

- Kazuo Ishiguro99

◆ Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti99

◆ If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower99

◆ Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don't need to search any further for security.

- Elisabeth Elliot99

◆ If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

- Henry Ford99

◆ most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.

- Rainer Maria Rilke99

◆ Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

- Hellen Keller99