Quotes About Letting Your Guard Down

#1. Letting your guard down, even for a moment, invites death.

Peter V. Brett

#2. People had long conversations with him, only to realize later that he hadn't spoken.

Laura Hillenbrand

#3. A Prayer was like a tickle.Sooner or later God would have to look down to see what was tickling his bum.

Lloyd Jones

#4. If all of a sudden the number of friend requests in your profile increases, understand that the thirty days block period of people is over..

Himmilicious

#5. Man is an organism, not a mechanism; and the mechanical pacing of his life does harm to his human responses, which naturally follow a kind of free rhythm.

Richard M. Weaver

#6. True strength is knowing that you don't have to be strong every single second of the day.

Mandy Hale

#7. Had these beliefs, if I had not known that I must live for God and not for my own desires? I should have robbed and lied and killed. Nothing of what makes the chief happiness of my life would have existed for me.

Leo Tolstoy

#8. Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.

David Hackworth

#9. Since I won't let the critics seal my fate, they keep hollering I'm full of hate. But they don't really hurt me none, 'cause I'm doing good and having fun.

Muhammad Ali

#10. For me there's a need for balance - fulfilling the sensitive side, letting my guard down, holding back the warrior in me. And I have to be vulnerable which is very hard for me to do.

Evangeline Lilly

#11. I grew up in an environment where the onus of raising a child was not on the parents alone but of the entire community. The logic is in that a child who becomes a burden or an armed robber becomes a threat not only to the parents but to a whole society!

Nana Awere Damoah

#12. A single bed with blood in it. Blood on the pillow and on the sheets and even on the enameled metal of the bed frame. Pink rags in a basin. Half-unrolled bandage on the floor. The nurse bustles over and grimaces at Werner. Outside of the kitchens, she is the only woman at the school.

Anthony Doerr

#13. If a happy ending is what you're after, stop the story where it makes you smile, or cry for laughter. In life, it's the rare sweetness to have tears of joy, or painless endings. People feel. It's what they know, and it's why i write.

Mark T. Barnes

#14. It's been a long time since I dared to get close to anyone, and I didn't realize letting down my guard could ache like this. I'm facedown in the ocean, and she's the lifeboat.

Sarina Bowen