53 Quotes About Self-protection

No boundary or barrier surrounds the heart of a person that loves their self and others.

All of these things make a buffer, and I say I like to keep my buffer broad.

It takes courage to let go of the past and all the mechanisms you have put in place, in order to ease your pain, regret and fear through avoiding responsibility for it.

She heard something crack and splinter the second he got to that last word. But it took her a second to realize the cracking and splintering came from somewhere inside herself. That thick layer of granite she had carved around her heart had just developed a fissure, and things were starting to leak through. Bad things, like hopes and dreams.

Suddenly finding myself imprisoned in the ruins of the fortresses I created, I realize that that which I built to protect me has now become a labyrinth that is set to destroy me. And laying spent in the rubble, I finally realize that there is only one fortress and I cannot create it because there is only one God.

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

Raising Black children — female and male — in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.

Circumstances can manufacture the materials, but it’s my attitude that builds the wall.

People can thought you’re look mean but from real it’s just a mask what you seems to protect you.