Feeling safe is a critical thing for personal growth, especially for a happy and healthy life.
With the uncertainty of pandemics making our lives unpredictable, the idea of feeling safe has become more crucial than ever before. That makes it absolutely vital to indulge yourself in some critical reading and learning about feeling safe.
As an effort to calm the readers and bring peace during their difficult times, we have brought you our amazing list of a few feeling safe quotes everyone must know to deal with their hardships.
These quotes from exceptional personalities, including George Eliot, Abraham Lincoln, Britney Spears, Catherine Bell, and others, will certainly help you lose all your fear and make you confident.
Have a look at our curated list of feeling safe quotes that will inspire you.
Fascinating Feeling Safe Quotes
Check out these fascinating feeling safe quotes.
"Possibly the deep feeling is that if people learn to eat one another the food supply would be so generous and so available that no one would be either safe or hungry."
- John Steinbeck
"All the stuff that keeps you safe from feeling scary emotions? They also keep you from feeling the good emotions. You have to shake those off. You have to become vulnerable."
- Brene Brown
"Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and bird world there existed a brotherly feeling that kept the Lakota safe among them. And so close did some of the Lakotas come to their feathered and furred friends that in true brotherhood they spoke a common tongue."
— Luther Standing Bear
"I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure."
— Princess of Wales Diana
“Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.”
— George Eliot
"When we feel like we belong we feel connected and we feel safe. As humans we crave the feeling and we seek it out. "
- Simon Sinek
"A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded."
— Abraham Lincoln
"It's wherever I feel safe and safest. Most of the time, that's just Barbados. It's warm, it's beautiful, it's the beach, it's my family, it's the food, it's the music. Everything feels familiar, feels right and feels safe. So, Barbados is home for me."
— Rihanna
"The feeling, all encompassing, safe and warm like a blanket permanently draped over her shoulders, follows her around. She takes it into the shower, to meals with her mother and sister, to work as she reads out the news script, her voice never faltering."
- Zainab Omaki
“One has the feeling of enormous safety. You don't have the torque from the propeller. You have no noise; it's almost like little electric motors humming inside, and you feel sort of safe.”
— Erich Warsitz
"I held on to his arm, which was belted securely around me, feeling safe because Dad was in charge and it was his hand that pulled the sun up each morning and down at night."
- Jandy Nelson
"It's better to cry than to be angry; because anger hurts others, while tear flow silently through the soul and cleanses the heart."
— Pope John Paul
"I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me."
— Britney Spears
"People think I'm crazy and reckless but I'm absolutely not. I'm soooo safe and soooo careful and I won't do anything that feels like I could break something."
— Catherine Bell
"I chose the shadows; they did not choose me. I stay here securely not just because I feel plain, but because disappearance is by now the easy way. The habit. The worn path that I can trod knowingly and be assured safe passage home."
— Rod McKuen
"These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through.
Now he hears the ice creak beneath him, and so intense and panicking is the sensation that he has to stand for a moment, press his hands to his face and catch his breath."
— David Nicholls
"Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away."
— Dinah Mulock
Feeling Safe Quotes You Must Know
Have a look at these feeling safe quotes everyone must know.
"He always called me Daughter. It was to distinguish me from his sister Ava. I loved being called Daughter. It sounded so possessive, and to be possessed when you are a child is just a wonderful feeling. It makes you feel safe. It makes you feel loved."
- Ava Gardner
"Every human being needs to feel safe and secure in their life."
— Kether Donohue
"That's the beauty about love. It's not about give-and-take. It's about feeling safe in one's needs - wanting to be looked after as much as wanting to look after.”
- Freya North
"Courage is leaning into the doubts and fears to do what you know is right even when it doesn't feel natural or safe."
— Leon F. 'Lee' Ellis
“Suffering makes you feel safe because you know it so well. But there is really no reason to suffer. The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.”
- 'The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom,' Miguel Ruiz
“Falling in love is more than infatuation. It is the need to feel whole, to feel safe, to be healed, to join together with someone, heart and soul.”
- Michael R French, 'Why Men Fall Out of Love: What Every Woman Needs to Understand'.
"I am sure that, had I grown up with both parents, had I grown up in a safe environment, had I grown up with a feeling of safety rather than danger, I would not be the way I am."
- Kristin Scott Thomas
"It's also easy to fall back into what's familiar, what feels safe, what you've done before."
— Frank Langella
"I think wherever we are, we can create an atmosphere of openness and trust, where women and those who feel marginalized feel safe to speak the truth of their lives."
— Terry Tempest Williams
"If you don't feel safe as a child, you can't learn."
— Lady Gaga
"Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world."
- Thomas Guthrie
"I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail."
— Sojourner Truth
“The first doorway (or chakra) is what I call in the book, the Doorway of Safety. This doorway relates to feeling safe in life and being present in the here and now. It's only when we are really grounded and safe that we're able to relax and open up our hearts.”
— Marci Shimoff
"The world can only seem a safe place when we feel safe inside."
— Agapi Stassinopoulos
"All people want to be safe and feel loved."
— Bryant H. McGill
Thought Provoking Feeling Safe Quotes
Here are some thought-provoking feeling safe quotes that will make you think.
"I was feeling safe. Not the kind of safe where you know there are still bad things howling outside the door waiting to get in.
No, it was the kind of safe where you sink down in your bed at the end of the day and know you can go to sleep and everything is going to be the same tomorrow."
- Lilith Saintcrow
"I feel really passionately about safe, comfortable roads, crosswalks, and sidewalks. Everyone of all economic backgrounds should be able to get to school or the grocery store safely and efficiently so they can live better lives."
— Ben Sollee
"Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don't feel safe."
— Toni Morrison
“I think that for me personally, a lot of my choices have been to do with my own issues of not feeling safe as a child and feeling a sense of stability.”
— Mariah Carey
"For that moment, at least, all our doors and windows were wide open; we were not carefully shutting out God's purifying light, in order to feel safe and secure; we were bathed in the same light that burned and yet did not consume the bush. We walked barefoot on holy ground."
— Madeleine L'Engle
"The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium."
— Don Delillo
"Imposter syndrome" wasn't coined as a term until the 1970s, but it's safe to assume women have always felt it: that nagging feeling that, even after you've just done something great, maybe you actually don't deserve the praise."
- Jessica Bennett
"So often we wait for the climate and conditions in life to be perfect before we feel safe enough to step forward, trust, and be our authentic selves. What we don't realize is that in order to create the ideal climate we are waiting for, we must be authentic first."
— Sonia Choquette
"I felt like people really do their best work when they're having a really good time and feel safe to push the envelope and make a jackass out of themselves."
— Clark Gregg
"When I grew up in the Bronx, we always had everyone telling us, 'Watch out for the system, watch out for child welfare, watch out, they'll get you,' and I grew up with this feeling of, 'Society is over there and they're dangerous and not safe."
- Liz Murray
"I like the feeling of being dominated. It actually makes me feel safe as opposed to challenged."
- Angelina Jolie
“Everywhere felt like a jail now- doors opening and closing, and me never feeling safe.”
— Gillian Flynn
"Lying there, feeling safe in his tight embrace, a tear escaped my resolute eye and darkened his purple shirt. I usually do not cry when I am afraid, but invariably did when I felt safe and cocooned, like I felt in the confines of his strong, sure arms.
- Kavipriya Moorthy
"The minute I leave my house - that is where I feel safe - I'm immediately in the jungle. The key is to survive through the cold world."
— DJ Khaled
"If you're looking over your shoulder, then you're not secure.” - Anthony T. Hincks
“I just want the feeling that I'm safe. The feeling that things can work out and that there'll be a happy ending someday.”
- Nadia Simonenko
"Returning from work feeling inspired, safe, fulfilled and grateful is a natural human right to which we are all entitled and not a modern luxury that only a few lucky ones are able to find."
- Simon Sinek
"Kids everywhere need to feel safe, hopeful, connected and appreciated."
— Michele Borba
Thoughtful Feeling Safe Quotes
Check out these interesting and thoughtful feeling safe quotes that will definitely make you pause and think.
"Anytime you step out of an embedded reporting situation, you're always making calculations about what's safe and what's not safe, feeling out the edges of your life, of what's possible, and what risks you're putting everyone else to."
- Rick Rowley
“Without individuals feeling safe and having an environment of safety, they then have reluctance of taking part in the city of being active. They wind up wanting to leave the city. That's more detrimental.”
— Dick Powell
"Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-between' things and often so utilitarian, that there are few places where we can feel truly safe."
— Henri Nouwen
"The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre."
— Helen Hayes
"I am safe when I express my feelings. I can be serene in any situation."
— Louise Hay
"I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for."
— Deepak Chopra
“The disaster of being old was in not feeling safe to venture anywhere, of seeing freedom put out of reach.”
— Elizabeth Taylor
"We are being governed by the dregs of the nation - and their brutality is so capricious that no one can feel certain that he will be safe tomorrow."
— Iris Origo
"I didn't grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table, so whenever I actually had a dinner 'plan,' it meant a lot to me; it made me feel excited and safe."
— Drew Barrymore
"I'm home and safe and filled with the comfort of being somewhere I've already been. The ruckus of homecoming is brutally enjoyable and everyone makes me feel like a champion. And all I had to do was stay away long enough."
— Miguel Syjuco
"I know the streets, I know the system, I know poverty, and I know how it feels to be 15 and not have a safe place to go."
— Lateefah Simon
"We can't feel safe because we are not safe."
— Chris Coleman
"Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe."
— Anne Wilson Schaef
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