Quotes About Guarding

As much as I want to be with someone, I'm too afraid to let anyone in. I've tried, and it ends up with me being hurt and hating myself more.

Maybe she is mean because her heart has been broken so many times that her meanness protects her from being hurt again.

It is a mistake. I just want to protect it from being broken.

There are times that, you have to stop caring,you have to turn off all emotions & feelings just to protect yourself from getting hurt.

I can ACT like stuff doesn't phase me and I don't care but that's just me trying to guard myself from being hurt.

I can ACT like stuff doesn't phase me and I don't care but that's just me trying to guard myself from being hurt. I've been there and not trying to go through it again.

A hurt person does everything they can to protect themselves from getting hurt again.

Sometimes is not even about being insecure, sometimes is about being over protected with our heart.

that form of the instinct of self-preservation with which we guard everything that is best in ourselves...

Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.

Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.

Negative things happen to all of us. We can't get away from that, but don't bring it close to you. Guard your heart.

Guard your heart. Its a precious thing that not everyone deserves.

But the danger of such liaisons is that, though the subjection of the woman may briefly allay the jealousy of the man, it eventually makes it even more demanding. He reaches the point of treating his mistress like one of those prisoners who are so closely guarded that the light in their cell is never turned off.

For some reason I want to keep a secret. I want to cup it in my hands and keep it safe like an egg. I want to fold it in the corner of my cheek where it is safe and dark." -Without Tess, Marcella Pixley

O Liberty...! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

Security puts a premium on feebleness.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

there are other dangers to conservatism and to the civilization conservatives are defending than the liberal Establishment, and that to fight liberalism without guarding against these dangers runs the risk of ending in a situation as bad as or worse than our present one.

so bad a thing is it to invade God's property, and so cautious should we be to abstain from all appearances of this evil.

In general men keep their internal lives–and their more complex emotions–closely guarded, because either they don't understand them or they are afraid of being betrayed by them.

Negativity can flow out of our spirits during these times of testing. The goal, however, is that in the midst of trials we open our spirits with affection, trusting His leadership without beginning to guard our hearts in fear of more hurt. When this happens, our woundedness affects our relationship with God, and our intimacy with Jesus can be hindered. Harboring offense in our hearts toward God wounds our love for Him, and the devil knows this very well.

Beware of subjects who are nobodies, Of whose plotting one is not aware. Trust not a brother, know not a friend. Make no intimates, it is worthless. When you lie down, guard your heart yourself.