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.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

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.

In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.

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.

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.

I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.

Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the denial of this right to minorities is a scar on our system of democracy.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

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

We believe very strongly that you stop that denial of coverage by promoting choice. Let people make the decisions.

The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.

Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.

I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.

It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.

My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself.

The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.

I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.

When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done.

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

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

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

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

You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.

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

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

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

She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.

Despite the state of denial exhibited by most Democrats, Americans all across the nation acknowledge that changes are necessary to preserve Social Security for today's younger workers.

I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it... accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with.

Hope is the denial of reality.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.