People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial. — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
It's a beautiful lie, it's a perfect denial, such a beautiful lie to believe in. — 30 Seconds To Mars Copy Share Image
Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate. — Mary Catherwood Copy Share Image
There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
My mind screams 'let go!' but my heart doesn't want to admit defeat and let these feeling show... — Nicole Hill Copy Share Image
“We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I feel bad for thinking it, but I know its true. Not thinking about things doesnt make them not true. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One belief that I've developed to carry me through extremely tough times is simply this: God's delays are not God's denials. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason. — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
It will be the mistake of your life if you go into print in your own defence [sic]. Your denial will reach… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He… — William James Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of things we all know that don't want to face. I hope you already know that. It will… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
This is in us: a certain sense of denial, a certain sense of groupthink. This is not something that sits on one… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds.… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“In order to believe clients' accounts of trauma, you need to suspend any pre-conceived notions that you have about what is possible… — Aphrodite Matsakis Copy Share Image
I don't think that a white woman is in denial when she dyes her hair blonde. And I actually think we are… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose... one of the great problems of history is that the concepts… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“They saw me. Milton's smile curled off his face like unsticky tape. And I knew immediately, I was a boy band, a… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Come awake, Tom. Fathers can willfully hurt their children. They can be addicts too weak to give up their vices, no matter… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Denial of numerous problems can happen in any organization, and I don't mean this as flip or negative as it's going to… — Chris Lowney Copy Share Image
Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“When a memory fails to appear, it seems as though the time when it was created did not really exist, and maybe… — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
“Asking someone to deny their own inner reality causes further rupture.” — Elaine Margolin Copy Share Image
The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself. — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
You changed, you left, you're gone. I'm still the same and I'm still holding on. — Anonymous Copy Share Image