Quotes About Protection

Nothing in the world was more important than my daughter's happiness, even though I'd never understood why she always had to choose the most difficult and painful of paths. But a mother doesn't have to understand anything, she simply has to love and protect. And feel proud. Knowing that we could give her almost everything, she nevertheless set off early in search of her independence. She'd had her stumbles and her failures, but she insisted on facing any storms alone.

Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself

But somewhere I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself.

I never expected, when I had a daughter, that one of my most important jobs would be to protect her childhood from becoming a marketers' land grab.

The minimum I ask for my footwear: to be able to dance in it and that it not get me murdered");

When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart.

Protecting ourselves from pain—our own and that of others—has never worked. Everybody wants to be free from their suffering, but the majority of us go about it in ways that only make things worse.

Blaming is a way to protect our hearts, to try to protect what is soft and open and tender in ourselves.

Pero bajo la dureza de esta armadura, se oculta la terneza de una genuina tristeza

As long as you visualize this sphere of red energy surrounding you, negative thoughts, hostilities, anger, and aggressive feelings of other persons and situations cannot enter you.

If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image.

The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety.

Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force.

I do Jiu Jitsu so I can protect you when I fight you.

We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

Nothing can touch me now - I'm Jeff Koons and my art can defend me !

Martial arts is not for hurting people, it's for protecting people.

Kempo is for the street first; everything else is secondary.

When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.

All's well with thee if thou art in just hands.

Madrid reacting with the forceful protection of bullfighting as an art form is an example of the survival of the old values.

I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.