30 Quotes About Defense-mechanism

I loved that vulnerable excitement when he first caught sight of something that made him feel before he could cover it up.

We think that boxes take everything that’s bad and they lock all that nasty stuff out, when in reality they take everything that we are and they lock all of those great things in.

The weapon is for defense, but the mind is for victory.

She'd spent the decades barricading herself from life, setting the conditions for love so high no one else could ever meet them. Few, in fact, had made any effort. It was a simple thing, in the end, to hide in plain sight. The world did not prevent you from becoming what you were determined to become.

I wondered if he was simply tired, if life had beaten him into permanent slouch, folded him over himself so no one could get at that soft center-

Personal growth commences with an ego death. Self-pride blunts personal growth because the ego resists change. The ego wants to maintain the status quo by holding onto false notions of the self. The ego desires me to see all of my failures as someone else’s fault.

You see, long ago I built a wall, a defense mechanism as I recall.

Some of the facts we are denying we were told by our very own eyes.

I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first.