QuoteProject
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
Helen Keller
ShareWTF𝕏

Interpretation

What this quote means

Security is an illusion, and true safety does not exist in the natural world.

This quote by Helen Keller suggests that the feeling of security is more of a constructed belief than a reality. In nature, uncertainties are inherent, and attempting to secure oneself fully is a futile endeavor; true comfort lies in accepting that risk and unpredictability are part of life.

Themes

SecuritySuperstitionNatureRiskLife

In practice

Example use cases

During a motivational speech about embracing uncertainty in life.

More from Helen Keller

What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.
Helen KellerRead
What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision.
Helen KellerRead
Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.
Helen KellerRead
Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.
Helen KellerRead
Our beloved ones have not 'gone to a far country.' It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them.
Helen KellerRead
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
Helen KellerRead

Similar quotes

Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.
Irving PennRead
deeds cannot dream what dreams can do
E. E. CummingsRead
He liked the fact that Venice had no cars. It made the city human. The streets were like veins, he thought, and the people were the blood, circulating everywhere.
Patricia HighsmithRead
But when the group is literally capable of changing our perceptions, and when to stand alone is to activate primitive, powerful, and unconscious feelings of rejection, then the health of these institutions seems far more vulnerable than we think.
Susan CainRead
When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.
Yo-Yo MaRead
Now every girl is expected to have: Caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian skin with a California tan, a Jamaican dance hall ass, long Swedish legs, small Japanese feet, the abs of a lesbian gym owner, the hips of a nine-year-old boy, the arms of Michelle Obama, and doll tits. The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes.
Tina FeyRead

A little wisdom, now and then

Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.