#denial

The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it. ↗

— Simon Travaglia

#barrier #denial #greatest #potential #someone

Hope is the denial of reality. ↗

— Margaret Weis

#hope #reality

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#curb #denial #handicraft #limit #machine

Did I miss the denial, anger, and bargaining phases, or did you leap straight to depression? ↗

— Kat Lowe

#depression #humor #loss #anger

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#life #soul #spiritual-development #truth #experience

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

— Sara Gruen

#body #denial #life #mind #truth

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. ↗

— Jane Austen

#blindness #denial #folly #love #refusal

That’s pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our attention. Jacking off. Denial. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#television

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