“Perhaps nothing so accurately characterizes dysfunctional families as denial.” — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“What is lack of prevention but denial that there is anything to be prevented?” — Louise F. Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
My personal feeling is that human beings have this incredible capacity for denial. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
“Denial is how I cope. If I just deny everything, it can't hurt me right?” — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial. — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“The darkness makes everything disappear but it makes nothing go away.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to… — Teri Hatcher Copy Share Image
I will close my eyes and when I open them, I pray you'll be there, that all of this is just a… — Kaylynn Thompson Copy Share Image
I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality. — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Last night I told myself I wasn't in love with you,then I closed my eyes and saw you in my dreams. — Gloria Bakang Copy Share Image
Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How do I validate him in the face of such profound personal loss and the outrageous denial by the medical community?” — Mary Dimmock Copy Share Image
The episcopal church was destined, inevitably, to grow further and further away from the Christian teaching of poverty and denial of worldly… — Judith Herrin 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
The parallelism, or denial of any causation between mind and body, derives basically, and fallaciously, from a theory of substances as having… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
The president has to project to the American people a sense of demanding idealism. Idealism which is not based in self-indulgence, but… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The process of leniency involves accepting the reality of the current situation and finding a satisfying meaning therein, as opposed to misconstruing… — Sandra L. Schneider Copy Share Image
“The only people that can't handle the truth are those that suffer so much anxiety that they will live in denial, in… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I did answer all of the questions put to me today, ... Nothing in my testimony in any way contradicted the strong… — John Podesta Copy Share Image
“Lately I have come to believe that an as yet undiscovered human need and even a property of matter is the desire… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
“Another preoccupation fed into this dynamic relationship between discovery and denial: does sexual abuse actually matter? Should it, in fact, be allowed?… — Beatrix Campbell 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
“Why you?” I asked. “Why are you the one here with me? Why isn’t it him?” Grayson’s smile was sad and full… — Kelly Oram Copy Share Image
A man who gives way to his passions is like a man who is shot by an enemy, catches the arrow in… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion,… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. And the Category 5 denial is an… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“For all this talk about us being a nation at war with child abuse, and for all the media hype about witch-hunts… — Ross Cheit Copy Share Image