Anything in your life that’s acting as a security blanket is only smothering the person you were born to be.

The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.

Boundary construction is most evident in three-year-olds. Boundary construction is most evident in three-year-olds. By this time, they should have mastered the following tasks:1. The ability to be emotionally attached to others, yet without giving up a sense of self and one‘s freedom to be apart, 2. The ability to say appropriate no's to others without fear of loss of love, 3. The ability to take appropriate no's from others without withdrawing emotionally. Noting these tasks, a friend said half-joking, "They need to learn this by age three? How about by fourty-three?" Yes, these are tall orders but boundary development is essential in the early years of life.

Security is a strange thing, a myth that the brain allows in exchange for a brief moment of peace.

Be someone’s security blanket when theirs is in the wash.

Identity was just a box people liked to put themselves in, a mast to tether to in a storm, a security blanket.

The world turns gray, the air grows cool, the fog blows in. Only at evening can you really value home.

A strong man next to you in bed is a comfort, but real security is a German Shepherd bitch on guard at the door.