Quotes About Protection

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person's solitude.

Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness.

Num casal há sempre um que que é o guardião da solidão do outro.

Let me put aside every desire, so that my heart grows used to its farthest spaces. Better that it live fully aware, in the terror of its stars, than as if protected, soothed by what is near.

Contre qui, rose, avez-vous adopté ces épines? Votre joie trop fine vous a-t-elle forcée de devenir cette chose armée? Mais de qui vous protège cette arme exagérée? Combien d'ennemis vous ai-je enlevés qui ne la craignaient point? Au contraire, d'été en automne, vous blessez les soins qu'on vous donne.

I think of you at any time of the day and my worried thoughts accompany all your steps. The slightest breath on your forehead is a kiss from my lips and each dream speaks to you with my voice. My love is like a coat wrapped around you to protect and warm you up." —from letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé

You become more protective and more capable of granting protection exactly to the extent that you have lost and now lack protection. The solitude into which you were cast so violently makes you capable of balancing out the loneliness of others to exactly the same degree.

Tal vez todo lo que nos asusta es, en su más profunda esencia, algo indefenso que requiere nuestro amor.

L'amore consiste in questo, che due solitudini si proteggono a vicenda, si toccano, si salutano.

Society in its wisdom has found ways of constructing refuges of all kinds

Tehlike, emniyette olmaktan daha güvenli.

In each territory, the dominant misl levied a rakhi (protection tax) on Sikh and non-Sikh peasants.

After such knowledge, and given the persistence of racial violence and the unavailability of legal protection, I asked myself, what else was there to sustain our will to persevere but laughter?

a dime pierced with a nail hole so as to be worn about the ankle on a string for luck

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

When you experience fear or are unsure about your situation, there's a beautiful and very powerful mantra you can say: "The power of God is within me. The grace of God surrounds me." Repeat it to yourself or to a loved one in need. It will protect you. Experience the power of it. It's like a solid steel shaft that goes through the top of your head right down to the base of your being. Grace will surround you like a force field.

To the baby who dies it makes no difference whether those who refused to protect her were proabortion or merely prochoice.

The best guardian of your own peace is the precaution you take to keep your heart guarded for God and by God.

You can't ever have my books.

I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

MOTHER: Why, just lying there, Jim, you run so fast. I never saw anyone move so much, just sleeping. Promise me, Jim. Wherever you go and come back, bring lots of kids. Let them run wild. Let me spoil them, some day. JIM: I'm never going to own anything that can hurt me.

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

Somewhere the saving and putting away had to begin again and someone had to do the saving and keeping, one way or another, in books, in records, in people's heads, any way at all so long as it was safe, free from moths, silverfish, rust and dry rot and men with matches.