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“I'd forgotten about it, and now I forgot it again. There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.”
“The worst denial of all is being in denial that were in denial in the first place. And I would wonder if thats not exactly where most of us live out most of our lives.”
“Actually, nothing hurts like hearing the word slut, unless it is hearing the word rape dropped about carelessly. Again, a word I wouldn't have thought much about, except that when I was in high sch...”
“Logic can't explain the salmon swimming upstream. So it denies the existence of salmon.”
“It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.”
“...the longer one stays in full flight from reality, the more painful will be the landing.”
“Trying not to believe things when in your heart you are almost sure they are true, is as bad for the temper as anything I know.”
“We have reached the age of denial, we have become happiness seekers, afraid to feel. We are told to think positive, to seek only joy. Stores overflow with books selling you ways to rid yourself of ...”
“you cannot replace negative beliefs with positive ones you can't believe- positive ones that are too ambitious. you must find and choose a thought that allows you to feel relief.”
“It's all overrated, man. Sex is only a great thing if you're not getting any.”
“Joy is not a denial of painful circumstances, but a certainty that He is at work while we are in them. EL”
“Did I miss the denial, anger, and bargaining phases, or did you leap straight to depression?”
“I wept for relationships not possible due to denial and dreams locked in the back of peoples minds, all of the bits of life that lay dormant until the babblings of televisions and nursing homes swe...”
“I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play.”
“Actively repeating a lie or denial does not make it true.”
“Time is denial's mortal enemy and is always victorious against it.”
“I would like to say that Im sacrificial. But am I sacrificial enough to acknowledge the fact that Im not?”
“If I worship the fact that I dont worship anything, amongst other things what Im worshipping is denial.”
“We can hide a lot of stuff until God shows up, for when God shows up nothing is hidden, which includes both our embarrassment and His forgiveness.”
“There's a fine line between forgiveness and denial.”
