“The problem isn't how you feel, it's that you don't feel SAFE to feel how you feel.”
Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher
Source: No Way Out (2002), Ch. 7: What Kind Of Human Being Do You Want?
“The problem isn't how you feel, it's that you don't feel SAFE to feel how you feel.”
Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher
Bruce Schneier (1963) American computer scientist
preface to 2015 edition of Secrets and Lies
Cryptography
Context: A few years ago I heard a quotation, and I am going to modify it here: If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.
“If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.”
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“You don't cause problems. An unpiloted vampire causes problems. You cause catastrophes.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Magic Burns
Variant: You don't cause problems. You cause catastrophes.
“You don't find happiness in the absence of problems. You find happiness in spite of problems.”
Andrew Matthews (1948) British writer
Source: Happiness Now!
“You don't have to think about love; you either feel it or you don't.”
Laura Esquivel book Like Water for Chocolate
Source: Like Water for Chocolate
“What you don't have you don't need it now
What you don't know you can feel it somehow”
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
"Beautiful Day"
Lyrics, All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000)
“If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.”
Christopher McDougall (1962) American journalist and writer
Source: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen