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To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet. ― Alan Wilson Watts
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When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago. ― Alan Watts
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said. ― Alan Wilson Watts
Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing. ― Emma Donoghue
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.
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone. ― Marilyn Monroe
Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home. ― Alan Wilson Watts
The Palestinian Arabs will have their autonomy, we will have our security. We shall live together. -Menachem Begin
Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social environment. ― Alan Wilson Watts
Happiness is the feeling we experience when we are too busy to be miserable. ― Thomas L. Masson
