Protect Yourself Quotes - Page 2

• At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming.

  Busta Rhymes

  Men, The End Of The Day, Faces

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The chemistry of mind is different from the chemistry of love. The mind is careful, suspicious, he advances little by little. He advises “Be careful, protect yourself” Whereas love says “Let yourself, go!” The mind is strong, never falls down, while love hurts itself, falls into ruins. But isn’t it in ruins that we mostly find the treasures? A broken heart hides so many treasures.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Strong, Hurt, Fall

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• If you are not living with a whole heart now, the end of the world poses no threat; your life is already gone. Life is only as valuable as our presence to enjoy it. To miss the beauty of the moment because you are preparing to protect yourself from the next one, is to trade a precious gem for a cheap trinket.

  Alan Cohen

  Heart, Missing, Gone

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• If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Loneliness, Love You

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Three Philosophies of Life: Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs”, p.70, Ignatius Press

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• I do believe in listening to your mind as well that that you need to be smart about certain things, to protect yourself. You need a healthy mix of both really, but it's important not to think so much that you're not able to follow your heart.

  Lily Collins

  Smart, Believe, Heart

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.

  John Frusciante

  Fate, Trying, Worst

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• Are you in relationships with people who don't have your well-being at heart? Make a list of these, and consider what you can do to protect yourself from their toxic influence. Sometimes, setting better boundaries and practicing the tools of conscious communication can be transformative. In some cases, ending a relationship may be necessary.

  Deepak Chopra

  Communication, Heart, People

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• You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things fall apart, letting the world come as it is - working with it rather than struggling against it. You're the only one who knows.

  Pema Chodron

  Struggle, Fall, Ego

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.126, Shambhala Publications

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• I want your innocence. I want your blind, unquestioning devotion to your father, your acceptance of who and what he is. I want you to look at me the way you look at him, knowing the worst. I want you to trust me, even when your brain tells you you shouldn't, I want you to ignore common sense and your lifelong need to protect yourself. I want you to give yourself to me, body and soul.

  Anne Stuart

  Father, Acceptance, Knowing

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• I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Afterlife, Judgment, Protect

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Awful, Way, Protect

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.129, Seven Stories Press

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• Life is terrorism, so spare me your indignation. Life is one big infiltration of our secure defenses. Some people put bombs on buses and blow them up: those are terrorists. Some people speak to you and their words blow you up: what would you call those people? Life is a condemned cell. . . . That's the only way to protect yourself . . . to understand that you're always under sentence of death and to try to get a temporary remission.

  Matt Rees

  Blow, Cells, People

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• It's so hard to say what you really mean. For any number of reasons: to protect yourself, or if you just can't find the words.

  Paul Beatty

  Mean, Numbers, Reason

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I feel like I have to be a walking encyclopedia - I constantly have to be explaining myself - especially when I do table work or when I'm talking to a dramaturg about, you know, the culture, but also what I'm trying to do as a writer in this particular play. You know, you have to protect yourself too.

  Nilo Cruz

  Trying, Culture, Protect

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• You can't control the weather, but there are definitely things you can do to protect yourself and the investment you've made in your boat. The key is to get started early so you have the supplies you need and you have a plan for what you're going to do with your boat.

  Scott Hall

  Keys, Weather, Needs

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• Developing emotional intelligence is one way to protect yourself from damaging relationships. Emotional intelligence is a science that has been studied and researched for over a decade. According to the theories, mutual respect and effective communication are key.

  Liz Miller

  Communication, Emotional, Keys

  Liz Miller (2010). “Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness”, p.127, Pan Macmillan

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• The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you're going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell's the point? Just do fiction.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Fiction, Hell, Intense

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Trust not overmuch to the blessed Magdalen; learn to protect yourself.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Blessed, Protect

  Benjamin Disraeli (1871). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.58

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• Canadians always make jokes about the arrogant American, but the longer I'm here, the more I realize, "Oh, it isn't that they're arrogant, it's just the way that their country is set up you really have to protect yourself and you really have to look after yourself, and with that comes the mentality of 'I'm doing my thing here, if you don't like it, get over it.'"

  Kelly Oxford

  Country, Arrogant, Realizing

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• You are too much concerned with past and future. It is all due to your longing to continue, to protect yourself against extinction. And as you want to continue, you want others to keep you company, hence your concern with their survival. But what you call survival is but the survival of a dream.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Dream, Future, Past

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• There's other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It's not brave to fight a battle you can't win.

  Peter V. Brett

  Humility, Fighting, Winning

  Peter V. Brett (2009). “The Warded Man: Book One of The Demon Cycle”, p.28, Del Rey

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• I believe the book should be something you protect yourself from by returning to your life. But it has threatened your life. Not by saying something it believes is true, but by attacking it.

  Tony Burgess

  Believe, Book, Should

  Interview with Jonathan Ball, logger.believermag.com. August 31, 2015.

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• I know I made plenty of mistakes in my tenure. But one of the things that you learn is to be very careful and to protect yourself down the road a little bit, which is to say you've got to think ahead and think where is the story going to go? What are all the possible outcomes? And how do I protect the president from unexpected twists and turns in the road?

  Dee Dee Myers

  Mistake, Thinking, President

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• If you get made fun for the way you look, then maybe wearing the same thing every day is the best way to protect yourself.

  John C. Reilly

  Fun, Looks, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• So you couldn't protect yourself? The absolute erodes; the boundary, the wall around the self erodes. If I was waiting I had been invaded by time. But do you think you're free? I think I recognize the patterns of my nature. Bud do you think you're free? I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added.

  Louise Glück

  Wall, Taken, Thinking

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