#denial

Go ahead, look at the message. You know you want to.” “No, it doesn’t matter.” “Then why do you keep staring at it like it’s the last piece of food on earth? ↗

— Victoria Michaels

#food

Denial is an ugly thing. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#life

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

— Sara Gruen

#body #denial #life #mind #truth

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

— George R.R. Martin

#honesty #truth #men

Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#self-disclosure #person

The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#humanity #people #logic

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#denial #god #possession #right #sin

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

#confronting #courageously #denial #escape #find

Debate is so much better than denial. ↗

— Julie Walters

#debate #denial #much #than

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