938 – “Who is happier, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”

-Hunter S Thompson

703 – “Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?”

–Kainene in a letter to Richard Churchill in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun

442 – Simple Truths Message

“Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths about the liberty of a democratic people. The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any other controlling private power.
The second truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if its business system does not provide employment and produce and distribute goods in such a way as to sustain an acceptable standard of living. Both lessons hit home. Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing.”

–Franklin D Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States of America

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301 – “If you would escape moral and physical assassination, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing—court obscurity, for only in oblivion does safety lie.”

–Elbert Hubbard [Often misattributed, see Source Notes]

294 – “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are made for.”

–John Augustus Shedd

“A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.”

–Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

143 – “Intimacy means that we’re safe enough to reveal the truth about ourselves in all the creative chaos. If a space is created in which two people are totally free to reveal their wall, then those walls, in time, will come down.”

– Marianne Williamson [attributed]

93 – “In any given moment, we have two options: to step forward into growth, or to step back into safety. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”

– Abraham Maslow