#denial

"There is a moment in our healing journey when our denial crumbles; we realize our experience and it's continued effects on us won't "just go away". That's our breakthrough moment. It's the sun coming out to warm the seeds of hope so they can grow our personal garden of empowerment."

"A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute."

"To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity."

"...you're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church."

"How 'bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail."

"Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly."

"No boundary or barrier surrounds the heart of a person that loves their self and others."

"At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you."

"The mind knows the truth when your heart denies what it feels. When you don't feel safe to let people in, it is because you're not ready to deal with the pain of honesty."

"Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it."

"I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?"

"To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul."

"Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it."

"Now what state do you live in?''Denial."

"You will never find the real truth among people that are insecure or have egos to protect. Truth over time becomes either guarded or twisted as their perspective changes; it changes with the seasons of their shame, love, hope or pride."

"I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality."

"It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge."

"Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it."

"The truth has become an insult."

"The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma."