“The human brain can protect us from seeing and feeling what it believes may be too uncomfortable for us to tolerate. It… — Bandy X Lee Copy Share Image
“It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop… — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
I feel that as long as you're honest, you have the opportunity to grow. It's when you shut down, go into denial,… — Tracy McMillan Copy Share Image
“interview from Ross E. Cheit about The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children (Oxford University Press, February 2014).… — Ross Cheit Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial. — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
The creativity of people on the schizophrenic end of the human continuum is a creativity that springs from the inability to accept… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
I think that's part of the whole denial and suicidal mechanism [ of the human's race] right "Oh my God, the house… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy. — Tab Hunter Copy Share Image
Chosen soul, how will you bring this about? What steps will you take to reach the high level to which God is… — Louis de Montfort Copy Share Image
Our hope is we move beyond denial and into debate... If we cleaned up the air, would it really be bad for… — Bob Inglis Copy Share Image
People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Work on your stony qualities and become resplendent like the ruby. Practice self-denial and accept difficulty. Always see infinite life in letting… — Rumi 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
In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Pray unceasingly that all denial be stripped from your mind. Pray that something miraculous be born within us all. Give everything you… — Ann Mortifee Copy Share Image
But what must be the character of that policy, which aims at national prosperity through the impoverishment of a large proportion of… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
Since many people have been asking me to elaborate on why I think "Inglourious Basterds" is akin to Holocaust denial, I'll try… — Jonathan Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
Why did she give up wine for Lent? Polly was more sensible. She had given up strawberry jam. Cecilia had never seen… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
If this thing's hushed up it'll be a simple denial to Jem of the way I've tried to raise him. Sometimes I… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
when the sky is as grey as this - impeccably grey, a denial, really of the very concept of colour - and… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Good therapy, gently but firmly, moves people out of denial and compartmentalization. It helps clients to develop richer inner lives and greater… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
The military is a path of the unknown. I wasn't in denial about the risk. — Kyle Carpenter 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
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
