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Quotes About Protection

Sending a sheep after a predator is merely home delivery
~ Gavin de Becker
Children require the protection of adults, usually from adults. Their fear of people is not yet developed, their intuition not yet loaded with enough information and experience to keep them from harm. The lesson for parents in the cases I've cited is to take nothing for granted when it comes to the safety of your children.
~ Gavin de Becker
if you cannot imagine something, you also cannot predict it, nor protect against it.
~ Gavin de Becker
The Bulletproof Mind
~ Gavin de Becker
We rely upon the woman herself to plan a course of action. Anyone, in or out of the system, who tells a woman she must follow a particular course that goes against her own judgment and intuition is not only failing to use the philosophy of empowerment, but may well be endangering the woman.
~ Gavin de Becker
John Kennedy once made the point that assassins could not be stopped because "all anyone has to do is be willing to trade his life for the President's.
~ Gavin de Becker
I've presented these facts about the frequency of violence for a reason: to increase the likelihood that you will believe it is at least possible that you or someone you care for will be a victim at some time. That belief is a key element in recognizing when you are in the presence of danger. That belief balances denial, the powerful and cunning enemy of successful predictions.
~ Gavin de Becker
Many parents think it does. When they want to underscore the importance of a given instruction, they attach some dreadful outcome to it: "Come right home; you don't want to get kidnapped," "Don't go there alone; remember, anyone could be a killer," and on and on. There
~ Gavin de Becker
We have a Department of Justice, but it would be more appropriate to have a department of violence prevention because that's what we need and that's what we care about. Justice is swell, but safety is survival.
~ Gavin de Becker
intuition is always right in at least two important ways; It is always in response to something. it always has your best interest at heart
~ Gavin de Becker
You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations.
~ Gavin de Becker
What children probably need to hear most from us adults is that they can talk with us about anything and that we will do all we can to keep them safe in any scary time.
~ Gavin Edwards
Many of our fears are based on the workings of the ego, the part of us that's focused on getting recognition and protecting us from social ostracism. In the Zone of Genius, your ego is unnecessary; living there is its own reward. In the Zone of Genius, you cease to care about recognition or ostracism. Once you make a commitment to inhabiting your full potential, your ego is suddenly faced with extinction.
~ Gay Hendricks
link together the other two Ps—prevention and protection—because they almost always occur at the same time. Here's the bottom line on prevention and protection:
~ Gay Hendricks
Now and Laters. Starbust, Pixie Stix. If she gets too bitchy, just feed her this crap. As long as the sugar high is in effect, you and the wildlife should be safe
~ Gayle Forman
I'm not sure it's possible to simultaneously love something and keep it safe. Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that's where safety lives.
~ Gayle Forman
I'm not sure it's possible to simultaneously love something and keep it safe. Loving someone is such an inherantly dangerous act. And yet, love, that's where safety lives.
~ Gayle Forman
Él mira una de las fotos por largo tiempo. Entonces me mira. —Te guardaré aquí. —Se golpea la sien—. A donde no puedas perderte.
~ Gayle Forman
Te guardaré aquí-Se golpea la sien-. Donde no puedas perderte.
~ Gayle Forman
What about your mom?" "She offered to take me to Planned Parenthood to get the Pill and told me to make Adam get tested for various diseases. In the meantime, she ordered me to buy condoms now. She even gave me ten bucks to start my supply.
~ Gayle Forman
That's when I figured out the ugly secret of a mother's love: you protect them to protect yourself.
~ Gayle Forman
Then he gave a sad little smile. "Yo Mama better watch his back," he said.
~ Gayle Forman
this was exactly what he did: became a turtle, all hard shell. It was the perfect protection, the perfect weapon. She lost every time. She understood that
~ Gayle Forman
Pero esa es la única puerta que necesita permanecer cerrada.
~ Gayle Forman