The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure.
Interpretation
Armor can shield you from hurt, but it also blocks you from experiencing joy.
This quote by Celeste Holm highlights the dual nature of protective measures we take in life. While safeguarding ourselves from emotional pain can seem necessary, it can inadvertently prevent us from fully enjoying life and experiencing pleasure. This suggests a balance must be struck between protecting oneself and remaining open to joy.
In practice
In a speech about emotional resilience, one might say this quote to emphasize the importance of vulnerability.
Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat, and, consequently, risk and chance are what gives rise to knowledge. Knowledge is not instinctive; it is counter instinctive, just as it is not natural but counter natural.
Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.
I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.
A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.
Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.
No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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