Helen (Adams) Keller, 1880-1968
was an US blind and deaf educator
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security 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 exposure.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
( “The Open Door” )
Willa (Sibert) Cather, 1873-1947
was an US novelist
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
Edmund Burke, 1729-1797
was an Irish orator, philosopher, and politician
Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.