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
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
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
Nothing is of its nature evil, and nothing is of its nature good. Evil is only excess, good is simply balance. All… — John Parsons 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
“Maintain a belief system that admits that all things are possible for those responsible to have them done. It's nothing to deny;… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
...So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
It's an incredible dilemma to be an artist of color and to always be in denial about that, saying, 'I'm a choreographer… — Donald Byrd Copy Share Image
“A guy never has a right to force a woman to have sex with him under any circumstances. She should be able… — James C. Dobson Copy Share Image
What you accomplish in life is limited only by your imagination and the fear of reprisal. Life is too fleeting and unrewarding… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
“He hadn't "abused" alcohol, but had spent almost four years sitting in a chair drinking jug wine around the clock and looking,… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
We Christians forget (if we ever learned) that attempts to redress real or imagined injustice by violent means are merely another exercise… — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
Some women are convinced that they are the same size they were 20 years ago. They also wear clothes that are too… — Stacy London Copy Share Image
“Denial is commonly found among persons with dissociative disorders. My favorite quotation from such a client is, "We are not multiple, we… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
You don't need the painful memories, because either you've resolved them. Denying always makes them want to come back. Denial is a… — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
Part of what makes a situation traumatic is not talking about it. Talking reduces trauma symptoms. When we don't talk about trauma,… — Tian Dayton 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
We make assertions and denials of what is next to [the Divine Nature], but never of It, for It is both beyond… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
Follow Christ in the denial of all the wills of self, and then all is put away that separates you from God;… — William Law Copy Share Image
I think vampires are different from human beings, but they're sentenced to eternity on this planet. They have the same confusion about… — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
“Perhaps nothing so accurately characterizes dysfunctional families as denial. The denial forces members to keep believing the myths and vital lies in… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Denying that race matters is irrational in the face of segregation and all of the other forms of obvious racial inequity in… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
Jesus existed, and those vocal persons who deny it do so not because they have considered the evidence with the dispassionate eye… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't spend a huge amount of time fixated on climate denial because I don't think that their objections, though sometimes couched… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Don’t forget that when we stop allowing truth in, either because it’s painful or unflattering or inconvenient, we will wind up self-deceived.… — Mike Ashcraft Copy Share Image
Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.” Most children do not… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
Naming things, breaking through taboos and denial is the most dangerous, terrifying, and crucial work. This has to happen in spite of… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
But grief is a walk alone. Others can be there, and listen. But you will walk alone down your own path, at… — Cathy Lamb Copy Share Image
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