#denial

Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it's only been a year and half, and has made me address parts of myself that I would otherwise live in comfortable denial of, or you know and - you know, for instance, my self-loathing. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

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You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory. ↗

— J. Donald Walters

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Debate is so much better than denial. ↗

— Julie Walters

#debate #denial #much #than

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

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My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself. ↗

— Teri Hatcher

#blame #dealing #denial #did #guilt

Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you. ↗

— Bill Hicks

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I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial. ↗

— Lorraine Bracco

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The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that. ↗

— John Sterling

#better #education #else #everything #self-denial

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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