Joseph Addison Quotes

You don't want to let on how hurt you are because some people will see that as a sign of weakness, they might use it against you.

I conditioned myself many years ago that nobody could hurt me.

Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself.

If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?

Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells.

By keeping her heart protected, she'll never ever feel rejected.

The chances we take, knowing no better than to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in... protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips.

Sometimes we are to guard our heart...protect it from invasion and keep things safe and secure. Sometimes we should give our heart... let certain qualities out and release them to others

People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.

Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.

I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.

Never let your face show how hard they are taking your ass.

I do have a vulnerable side. I think a lot of people have a misperception of me. They only see the tough, defensive, aggressive side. But every woman is vulnerable.

All my life, I've been the kind of person who could shatter easily.

To be a geisha, you have to have to an iron-clad layer around you - around your physical body and your heart.

I did have an emo phase. It was sort of like armor for me.

I think everybody should have the attitude that you can't allow yourself to be hurt. You avoid a lot just with that attitude.

To be strong is to understand weakness. To be weak is to have fears. To have fears is to have something precious to you. To have something precious to you is to be strong.

...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.

Do not tell everyone your story. You will only end up feeling more rejected. People cannot give you what you long for in your heart. The more you expect from people's response to your experience of abandonment, the more you will feel exposed to ridicule.

The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.

We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.