Denial Quotes - Page 5

• Security is the denial of life

  Germaine Greer

  Security

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

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• I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.

  Roger Nash Baldwin

  Self, Practice, Sacred

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• There are no real successes without rejection. The more rejection you get, the better you are, the more you've learned, the closer you are to your outcome... If you can handle rejection, you'll learn to get everything you want.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Success, Real

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Jun 13, 2012

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• But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Freedom, Men, Essence

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• Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called "God." As soon as you turn away from it, God ceases to be a reality in your life, and all you are left with is the mental concept of God, which some people believe in and others deny. Even belief in God is only a poor substitute for the living reality of God manifesting every moment of your life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.198, Penguin

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• Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding chaos of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence—by his own choice.

  Ayn Rand

  Power, Men, Escaping

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.604, Hamilton Books

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

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Humor, Drug

  Bill Hicks (2009). “Love All the People (New Edition)”, p.102, Hachette UK

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• Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Evil, Succeed, Incredibles

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• Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced ...the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Inspirational, Success, Singleness Of Purpose

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• The pathway to your best life isn't the route of denial. It's owning every moment.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Pathways, Moments, Routes

  "Oprah On Aging: Why You Should Embrace The Age You Are" by Oprah Winfrey, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2013.

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• If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Art, Use, Concerned

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery”, p.14, Random House

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• What I mean by "An Unspoken Hunger." It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by material things. It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by the constant denial.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Mean, Hunger, Constant

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming.

  Diane Sawyer

  Country, Thinking, Pilots

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• The abuse dies in a day; but the denial slays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Ignorance, Race, People

  Charles Bradlaugh's speech at Hall of Science (circa 1880), as quoted in Annie Besant "Annie Besant: An Autobiography", 1893.

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• Part of what makes a situation traumatic is not talking about it. Talking reduces trauma symptoms. When we don't talk about trauma, we remain emotionally illiterate. Our most powerful feelings go unnamed and unspoken.

  Tian Dayton

  Powerful, Talking, Silence

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• Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.

  Pope John Paul II

  Sacrifice, Men, Self

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• Being present means being completely aware of all that is. It means you’re not in denial, you’re not pretending, and you’re not avoiding.

  Debbie Ford

  Mean, Pretending, Avoiding

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• The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self, Harsh, True Believer

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Are you always trying to get somewhere other than where you are so that you can finally be happy? The truth is that all unhappiness is caused by denial of the present.

  Robert Anthony

  Happiness, Always Trying, Truth Is

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.174, Morgan James Publishing

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• One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religion, Facts, Belief

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.929, Library of Alexandria

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• Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a denial of wisdom. Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the nonviolent, the elegant and beautiful.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Beautiful, Technology, Progress

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• Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

  Walter Scott

  Humble, Ambition, Destiny

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• Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.

  Antonio Machado

  Philosophical, Deny, Existence

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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• After years of denial and deception, the Philip Morris company has admitted that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases. This formal acknowledgment comes far too late but still we must all welcome it. It can be the beginning of clearing the air.

  William J. Clinton

  Cancer, Air, Years

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.1762, Best Books on

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• I wonder if I could have been here before as I drive up the Roman road the Theater seems familiar - perhaps I headed a legion up that same white road... I passed a chateau in ruins which I possibly helped escalade in the middle ages. There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, We are, and we will be.

  George S. Patton

  Army, White, Age

  Letter to his mother from Chamlieu, France, November 20, 1917.

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