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• Security: The state of being free from danger or threat.  Oxford Dictionary
• Security: Protection of a person, building, organization, or country against threats. Cambridge Dictionary
• Security: Freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety. Dictionary.com
• the quality or state of being secure: as a :freedom from danger : b :  freedom from fear or anxiety.   Merriam Webster
• Caution,  Comfort,  Risk taking,  Danger

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Attachment to security leads to stagnation

• I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security. William Orville Douglas
• In any given moment, a man’s growth is optimized if he leans just beyond his edge, his capacity, his fear. He should not be too lazy, happily stagnating in the zone of security and comfort. Nor should he push far beyond his edge, stressing himself unnecessarily, unable to metabolize his experience. He should lean just slightly beyond the edge of fear and discomfort. Constantly. In everything he does. David Deida
• Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life. Germaine Greer
• Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life’s currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose, or, better still, jump in the water and swim for the shore. Thomas Szasz
• The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. Tacitus
• Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe. Anne Wilson Schaef

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Don’t sacrifice your freedom for security

• Most people want security in this world, not freedom. H. L. Mencken
• Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. Benjamin Franklin
• There is great security in the prisons we create for ourselves. Stephen G. Scalese
• 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. Eisenhower
• They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin
• Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release. Germaine Greer
• A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the existing of better men than himself. John Stuart Mill
• The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. Henry Miller
• Freedom

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Shun the need for excessive security

• Shop for security over happiness and we buy it at that price. Richard Bach
• Security is the chief enemy of mortals. William Shakespeare
• Shun security. Thales of Miletos
• It’s an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure… Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best. Harold W. Dodds
• We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it. John Steinbeck
• There is no such thing as security. There never has been. Germaine Greer

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Learn to tolerate insecurity

• The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. Erich Fromm

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Let go of the need for security and embrace opportunity

• Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk. Shirley Hufstedler
• Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in a harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out. Jackson Brown Jr.
• The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire. Brian Tracy
• There is no security on this Earth; there is only opportunity. Douglas MacArthur
• Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life then of death. James F. Byrnes
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Let go of the need for security and embrace adventure

• It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. Alan Cohen
• Security is mostly a superstition. It 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 outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. Helen Keller
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Let go of the need for security and embrace aliveness

• Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than partyline line or public opinion; when the mood of Beethoven or Bach will be the mood of your total existence… Wilhelm Reich
• Aliveness commands a spiritual response, a summoning. In aliveness the task shifts from: how can we be safe and secure, protect ourselves from reality to how much lightening can we stand? How much reality can we receive? Ann Ullanov
• IT COSTS SO much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the enlightenment or the courage to pay the price. One has to abandon altogether the search for security and reach out to the risk of living with both arms open. One has to embrace the world like a lover. One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying. Morris West
• Spiritual security means you are fully alive and comfortable in your life as it is, without expecting anything. Dainin Katagiri
• Being fully alive,  Vitality

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Let go of the need for security and embrace uncertainty and the unknown

• The search for certainty and security is an attachment to the known. The known is the past. There is no evolution in that. Uncertainty on the other hand is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom. I relinquish my attachment to the known and step into the field of all possibilities. Deepak Chopra
• Today I will factor in uncertainty as an essential ingredient of my experience. In my willingness to accept uncertainty, solutions will spontaneously emerge out of the problem, out of the confusion, disorder, and chaos. The more uncertain things seem to be, the more secure I will feel, because uncertainty is my path to freedom. Through the wisdom of uncertainty, I will find my security. Deepak Chopra
• Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. William Congreve
• Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security. John Allen Paulos
• Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed. Winston Churchill
• Let go of the need for certainty,  The unknown

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Security lies in growth and moving forwards

• If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to shape our lives, to seek the kinds of growth that we find individually fulfilling, then we can have no security: we will live in a world of sham, in which our selves are determined by the will of others, in which we will be constantly buffeted and increasingly isolated by the changes round us. Nena O’Neil
• Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward. Maxwell Maltz
• Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• The only peace, the only security, is in fulfilment. Henry Miller
• We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. Without them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence. H.G. Wells
• Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. Gail Sheehy
• Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential. Aung San Suu Kyi
• Most people never feel secure because they are always worried that they will lose their job, lose the money they already have, lose their spouse, lose their health, and so on. The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way, that you are increasing the caliber of who you are and that you are valuable to your company, your friends, and your family. Tony Robbins
• Growth,  Momentum

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Security lies in embracing change

• Our only security is our ability to change. John Lilly
• The search for static security – in the law and elsewhere – is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts. William Osler
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Security lies in knowledge, experience, and ability

• If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Henry Ford
• Knowledge,  Experience,  Skill,  Mastery

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Security lies in the ability to constantly learn

• In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn. Nathaniel Branden
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Security lies in being able to trust yourself to be able to handle what comes

• … there is a different kind of security that is worth pursuing, and this is the internal security of trusting yourself to handle anything that may come down the pike. This is the only lasting security, the only real security. Wayne Dyer
• There is only one security, and when you’ve lost that security, you’ve lost everything you’ve got. And that is the security of confidence in yourself; to be, to create, to make any position you want to make for yourself. And when you lose that confidence, you’ve lost the only security you can have. … Self-confidence is self- determinism. One’s belief in one’s ability to determine his own course. As long as one has that, he’s got the universe in his pocket. And when he hasn’t got that, not all the pearls in China nor all the grain and corn in Iowa can give him security, because that’s the only security there is. Ron Hubbard
• When you know that you’re capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer. Harry Browne
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Security lies in personal integrity

• My security does not come from the way people treat me or by comparing myself to others. It comes from my basic integrity. Stephen Covey
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Security lies in what’s inside you

• There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself. Gilda Radner
• Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it. Stephen Covey
• The treasure within

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Security lies in love

• How we need that security. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this. I need someone to pour myself into. Sylvia Plath
• I know of no realm of life that can provide more companionship in a lonely world or greater feelings of security and purpose in chaotic times than the close ties of a family. Charles R. Swindoll
• We recognize a soul mate by the supreme level of comfort and security we feel with that person. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t issues that remain to be ironed out. Rather, it means we know intuitively that we can resolve issues with our soul mate without losing his or her love and respect. Linda Brady
• Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love. Billy Graham
• A wise mother knows: It is her state of consciousness that matters. Her gentleness and clarity command respect. Her love creates security. Vimala McClure
• Security is when I’m very much in love with somebody extraordinary who loves me back. Shelly Winters
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Security lies in spiritual security

• By altering the neurochemistry of the brain, spiritual practices bestow a sense of peace, happiness, and security, while decreasing symptoms of anxiety, depression and stress. Andrew Newberg
• Spiritual security means you are fully alive and comfortable in your life as it is, without expecting anything. Dainin Katagiri
• You have to do your best to face every moment, because this moment will never come again. The moment that you are living right now is a very important opportunity to make your life vividly alive. If you want to live with spiritual security in the midst of constant change, you have to burn the flame of your life force in everything you do. Dainin Katagiri
• Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. Thomas Merton

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Security lies in your ability to connect to God

• Your security is not your job, or your bank account, or your investments, or your spouse or parents. Your security is your ability to connect with the cosmic power that creates all things. Louise L. Hay
• 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 Elliot
• Security is not the absence of danger, but the presence of God, no matter what the danger.
• Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us the Lord will provide. Sir Isaac Newton
• God,  Trust in God

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Security lies in the joy of Being

• As the ego is no longer running your life, the psychological need for external security, which is illusory anyway, lessens. You are able to live with uncertainty, even enjoy it. When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. Eckhart Tolle
• Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love – you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer. Eckhart Tolle
• Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth. They are looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love, while they have a treasure within that not only includes all those things but is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer. Eckhart Tolle
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Security lies in not needing, demanding or expecting

• The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. Joseph Wood Krutch
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More sources of security

• In order to create lasting security, you must learn to stand in your truth. Suze Orman
• The ultimate security is your understanding of reality. H. Stanley Judd
• We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources. Bo Bennett
• Distrust and caution are the parents of security. Benjamin Franklin

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Don’t confuse money with security

• Don’t get caught confusing money with security. There are lots of ways to build a life that’s more secure, starting with the stories you tell yourself, the people you surround yourself with and the cost of living you embrace. Money is one way to feel more secure, but money alone won’t deliver this. Seth Godin
• If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Henry Ford

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Don’t confuse dogma with security

• Dogmas–religious, political, scientific–arise out of erroneous belief that thought can encapsulate reality or truth. Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of “I know.” Eckhart Tolle
• Ideology and dogma

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Don’t confuse humility with insecurity

• Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness! JoyBell C.
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Overcome insecurity

• The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. Theodore Forstmann
• One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit. A. Konrath

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Sources of insecurity

• If I am judging this moment, I am not living it. If I am living it, I am not judging it. Judging is head centered, living is heart centered. Judging springs from doubt and insecurity. Living springs from love and contentment. And each moment I choose again, as my choice a moment ago is no longer relevant. Michael Jeffreys
• Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. Thomas Merton
• If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery. Albert Einstein
• Only the insecure strive for security. Wayne Dyer
• It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity. Criss Jami
• There can be no security where there is fear. Felix Frankfurter

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• My job is secure. No one else wants it.
• Security: The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.  Joseph Conrad
• Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one as yet is suspicious. L. Mencken
• The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel. Steve Furtick

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