The key to surviving a surgical internship is denial. We deny that we're tired, we deny that we're scared, we deny how badly we want to succeed. And most importantly, we deny that we're in denial.
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Quotes tagged ‘Denial’
When we resist or avoid looking at ourselves, the universe will hold up a mirror, making denial impossible.
When it comes to accepting what is, fear, resistance, denial, and against-ness serve to make a difficult experience more difficult.
Denial has been a way of life for me for many years. I actually believe in denial.
You (the Anabaptists) make the love of God common to all men, and that do we constantly deny.
I couldn't accept that I was both gay and dyslexic I was in Daniel
It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.
Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn’t make you strong. If anything, it makes you weaker. Because you’re doing it out of fear.
It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.
I really think this is why people have faces, to hide their souls.
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Our insanity is not that we see people who aren’t there. It’s that we ignore the ones who are.
Sitting with those horrible feelings, and needing to understand them, and putting them into place. In the end, you find: I am those things I don't like. That is a part of me. I can't deny that. I have to accept that. And in fact, I have to embrace that. I need to face that and take care of that. Bec…
I think I spent a lot of time avoiding feelings and building structures, you know, around feelings.
We go from disappointment to disappointment, from hope to denial, from expectation to surrender, as we grow older, thinking or coming to think that what was wrong was the wanting, so intense it hurt us, and believing or coming to believe that hope was our mistake and expectation our error, and that…
It seems to me that we all have a dream of our own, our own personal vision, our own individual way of giving, but for many reasons we are afraid to pursue it, or to even recognize and accept its existence. But to deny our vision is to sell our soul.
you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
Many of us find ourselves saying “BUT HE WAS SO GREAT!” Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on vacation. Things changed and it’s important to remember that they did.