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
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
“There is a moment in our healing journey when our denial crumbles; we realize our experience and it's continued effects on us… — Jeanne McElvaney Copy Share Image
Women's genetic celebrity power magnifies men's protector instinct. It inspires the government-as-substitute-husband. Men's addiction to the genetic celebrity is either invisible or… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Delayed answers to prayer are not only trials of faith; they also give us opportunities to honor God through our steadfast confidence… — Charles Spurgeon 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
“Denial may be neither a matter of telling the truth nor intentionally telling a lie. There seem to be states of mind,… — Stanley Cohen Copy Share Image
“from Hum, Hum Oh the house of denial has thick walls and very small windows and whoever lives there, little by little,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
For me, for a very long time, I was in denial because when you say you're sad or you're overwhelmed, we consider… — Karen Civil Copy Share Image
I think I was more just not comfortable with saying it. I was also in denial. I was like, 'I'm not gay,… — Sonya Deville Copy Share Image
I just cant fake a smile while I'm living denial. Everything goes by so fast except the past. It lingers around like… — Nichole Fickes Copy Share Image
Sometimes the act of walking in the face of the elements helps us come to grips with reality. Or it simply exhausts… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the love of our neighbor, than by the prohibition of innocent comforts and pleasures. Spirituality… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
She can't hide no matter how hard she tries, her secret disguised behind these lies. And at night she cries away her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes, though, you make a pact with yourself. I'll pretend there's nothing wrong if you pretend there's nothing wrong. It's called denial,… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain… — George Sand Copy Share Image
The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“What is the Truth? It is that ugly thing so many want buried hidden away from our loved ones hidden away from… — Larry Sheridan Copy Share Image
“The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines. Only such people will so contrive and control those… — Herbert Read 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
The key to success is to not take rejection personally, to know that having faith counts the most when we feel scared… — Mastin Kipp Copy Share Image
I loved you, I cant deny, I still love you but I cant do it this time, I have to let go,… — Travis Martin Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if the truth is right there out in front of your eyes. You will find a way, a mechanism,… — Bassem Youssef Copy Share Image
“When pondering who I am, I write the fiction that I want directly over the facts that I hate. However, what I’ve… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Much of the self-help world is predicated on peddling highs to people rather than solving legitimate problems. Many self-help gurus teach you… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
Looking at virtual reality through computer screens, video game screens, and above all television screens is a denial of personality development. It's… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
The oral (Laetrile) had been 'toxified' by adding cyano-urea in the NCI...(NCI's) Mayo (Clinic) dismissed well responding patients to discard them from… — Hans Alfred Nieper Copy Share Image
“We have had this discussion before. You are my son. I love you. I will always love you. But I also love… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
I'm not pushing myself forward in denial of the moment. I'm pushing myself forward and enjoying every moment voraciously. I'm thinking about… — Measha Brueggergosman Copy Share Image
I think the condition of imperial denial is a handicap because if you do not recognize that you are essentially performing the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Great potential for personal empowerment can be found in attending to our awareness of global problems and to our understanding of how… — Sarah Connor Copy Share Image
“To live in denial of caring deeply, to hold oneself back from speaking from the heart as a means of self protection,… — Cheryld Copy Share Image
... the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“I wept for relationships not possible due to denial and dreams locked in the back of people’s minds, all of the bits… — Christopher Hawke Copy Share Image
We're not citizens anymore. We're consumers. That's what we're called. It's just like being an alcoholic and being in denial that you're… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
“They are married, after all, in every way that matters. The difficulty is that they appear not to have noticed. And one… — Chris Dee Copy Share Image
