Coming out of the trance of denial is painful. But crises offer us opportunities to rethink our lives. The best thing about… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
Without free speech no search for truth is possible; without free speech progress is checked and the nations no longer march forward… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
“Ruthie started to cry at Julia's use of the word "hate," though Ruthie knew it was true, accurate. For a long time… — Susan Rebecca White Copy Share Image
We love the old saints, missionaries, martyrs, and reformers. Our Luthers, Bunyans, Wesleys and Asburys, etc... We will write their biographies, reverence… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I'm in total celebrity denial in general, but there's awareness that probably if somebody has met you, they might go and tell… — Julie Bowen Copy Share Image
If you are deemed insane, then all actions that would oherwise prove you are not do, in actuality, fall into the framework… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Little self-denials, little honesties, little passing words of sympathy, little nameless acts of kindness, little silent victories over favorite temptations-these are the… — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
What is it that is done to our children that their puberty should deform them? They have the joy of movement; they… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
If you turn on the television, you'll find the mothers of the most obvious criminals that man could ever diagnose, and they… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
What has actually to be said about the Cause of everything is this. Since it is the Cause of all beings, we… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
“I see things in windows and I say to myself that I want them. I want them because I want to belong.… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
“The story of Sybil is true, not fictional or fraudulent. One early commentator actually suggested that Sybil and Dr. Cornelia Wilbur, her… — Philip M. Coons Copy Share Image
We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
“Our world is suffering from metastatic cancer. Stage 4. Racism has spread to nearly every part of the body politic, intersecting with… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Those who deny guilt and sin are like the Pharisees of old who thought our Saviour had a “guilt complex” because He… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
People don't want to hear the truth, they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. And then when they… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
Cultists do not want to admit they have been manipulated by charisma. Nigerian money scheme victims do not want to accept that… — Pamela Meyer Copy Share Image
Some great experiences I've had and little by little I've come to the realization that everything Frank Zappa told me was the… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
“Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful... Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
“To think that ignoring something is to make it go away is to exercise some of the greatest imagination imaginable. And if… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Technic is the result of a need new needs demand new technics total control denial of the accident States of order organic… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
A line, an area of tone, is not really important because it records what you have seen, but because of what it… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
There’s no way that you can live an adequate life without many mistakes. In fact, one trick in life is to get… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We all say how much we hate that one person for hurting you, and we wish we never met them. But deep… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We've all heard of Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's five stages of grief: denial, anger, bagaining, depression and acceptance. By contrats, I realized, happiness… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Currently, U.S. society has been encouraged by its political and subsidized mass-media intelligentsia to view U.S. life as a continual "morning in… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit,… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia is denial. Denial of the painful present. The name for this denial is Golden Age thinking - the erroneous notion that… — Midnight in Paris Copy Share Image
One of the primary conditions for suffering is denial. Shutting our mind to pain, whether in ourselves or others, only ensures that… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
It's rare that we actively and consciously 'forget'; most of the time we have simply forgotten, with no consciousness of having forgotten.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A lot of people that are in the disease of drinking and using can be caught up on the denial aspect of… — Bobby Lee Copy Share Image
“Evidenced in a capacity for denial so that you do not let yourself know what is really going on. You may be… — Carol S. Pearson Copy Share Image
I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to… — Jaclyn Smith Copy Share Image
“ If I don't read page ninety, it won't have happened to them. Black Beauty will still live with all his friends… — Barbara Hambly Copy Share Image
