{"quotes":[{"text":"We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day. (p.28).","author":"António R. Damásio","tags":["avoidance","body","denial","hidden","life","mind","screen","self-preservation","self-protection","veil"],"id":3183,"author_id":"Ant%C3%B3nio+R.+Dam%C3%A1sio"},{"text":"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.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["boundaries","boundary","captive","christian","christianity","defense","defense-mechanisms","defensive","destroy","destruction","fail","failure","fortress","fortresses","god","imprisoned","jesus","jesus-christ","protect","protection","rubble","self-protection"],"id":9068,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"These times are hard, but I won't walk away jaded, darker, different. I feel. I cry to heal. If you saw me in those moments, maybe you'd think I was a mess. But I don't call it a mess. I call it strength.Real strength isn't about building walls. Real strength is about staying open, no matter what. It's about taking life—with all the pleasures that fade and all the pain that sticks around for too long—and not shutting down, not closing down, not building up those walls.Resilience isn't hard, impenetrable, iron. Resilience is flexible, soft, warm. Stay strong. The real kind of strong. Don't let your automatic mind reflexes make you jump away from pain and towards pleasure. Make choices. See clearly. And never, ever, stop feeling.Don't go numb. The world, even with all its horror, is too beautiful to miss.","author":"Vironika Tugaleva","tags":["emotions","feeling","feelings","healing","mess","self-love","self-protection","strength","strong","vulnerability"],"id":12851,"author_id":"Vironika+Tugaleva"},{"text":"We are not supposed to run after miracles but we are supposed to run after self-perfection, self-growth, self - improvements.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["miracle","miracles","self-growth-and-improvement","self-protection"],"id":15880,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Talent is useful, but always keep your dagger sharp.","author":"Amanda Quick","tags":["self-protection","talent"],"id":23671,"author_id":"Amanda+Quick"},{"text":"Most of your healing journey will be about unlearning the patterns of self-protection that once kept you safe.","author":"Vironika Tugaleva","tags":["emotional-healing","emotions","healing","self-healing","self-protection"],"id":40428,"author_id":"Vironika+Tugaleva"},{"text":"She surveyed the undergrowth and focused on a cluster of fern fronds curled tightly against the new life they had been given. She often wondered why the fern’s new existence was so firmly wound up. But she questioned their response no longer. Oaklee felt every muscle in her body want to curl up in self-protection, to comfort the pain, anger, and fear.","author":"Jesikah Sundin","tags":["anger","elements","fear","ferns","pain","self-protection","the-biodome-chronicles","willow"],"id":44389,"author_id":"Jesikah+Sundin"},{"text":"My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.","author":"Margaret Edson","tags":["defense","self-protection","vocabulary","words"],"id":58037,"author_id":"Margaret+Edson"},{"text":"I know a little something about fear, honey. I know what a relief it feels like to give into it at first. It’s not hard to persuade yourself that you’re doing the right thing—that you’re making the smart, safe decision. But fear is insidious. It takes anything you’re willing to give it, the parts of your life you don’t mind cutting out, but when you’re not looking, it takes anything else it damn well pleases, too.","author":"Andrea Lochen","tags":["anxiety","fear","overcoming-fear","persuasion","self-protection"],"id":63070,"author_id":"Andrea+Lochen"},{"text":"Blame doesn't empower you. It keeps you stuck in a place you don't want to be because you don't want to make the temporary, but painful decision, to be responsible for the outcome of your own life's happiness.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["blaming-others","control","emotions","false-perception","fear","happiness","living-a-lie","overcoming","ownership","regret","relationships-101","self-awareness","self-improvement","self-protection","settling"],"id":130744,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}