#denial

A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness. ↗

— Criss Jami

#denial #facing #facing-fear #facing-problems #fear

And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#intuition

Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past. ↗

— Martha Beck

#any #because #blindly #built #denial

We believe very strongly that you stop that denial of coverage by promoting choice. Let people make the decisions. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#choice #coverage #decisions #denial #make

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it? ↗

— Eric Liu

#ask #birth #citizenship #conferred #denial

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

#dedication #football #hard #hard work #life

Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A.; if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#day #death #denial #die #enough

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock. ↗

— Theodore Parker

#comes #highest #indispensable #kind #religious

One picture is worth 1,000 denials. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#denials #picture #picture is worth #worth

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#good soldier #however #outstanding #qualities #recognized