Sentence examples for guarding ourselves from inspiring English sources

The question then is, How can we remain hopeful – benefiting from the fruits of optimism – while at the same time guarding ourselves from its pitfalls?

Obviously the event is horrible but the idea is we are all actually good people and this event happens to few people so let's focus on the sense of community rather than us guarding ourselves".

The Ten Questions encapsulate, we believe, timeless ideals of participation: self-reflection on authentic motivations, pivoting from individual to collective action, expanding the scope of collaboration, coordinating divergent self-interests, guarding ourselves from pushbacks, and getting from voice to influence.

Who can estimate how much of suffering and disease, of poverty and ignorance, or of the threat posed by natural disasters would by now have been conquered were not so much of our energy and resources diverted either to the pursuit of wrongful goals, or to guarding ourselves against those who do pursue them, and mending as well as we can the harm they cause?

Yet we often guard ourselves.

"We guard ourselves," said Loibis Fuentes, 37, who is serving a murder sentence at La Planta.

We have to guard ourselves, by defending ourselves both physically and morally.

For him as for Benjamin, then, collections are attempts to guard ourselves against being swept away by the tumult.

"There are those that say we should fear China's rise – that we should somehow guard ourselves against it.

There are those who say we should fear China's rise – that we should somehow guard ourselves against it.

This feeling that we need to guard ourselves, and the extra work that it takes to discern our true friends, creates significant additional stress for us.