Quotes About Rejection

Instead, he gripped her forearm. "Why, Jasnah? Why have you always denied me?" "Other than the fact that you are a detestable buffoon who achieves only the lowest level of mediocrity, as it is the best your limited mind can imagine? I can't possibly think of a reason.

The only way to create something that nobody hates is to ensure that it can't be loved either. Remove enough spice from soup and you'll just end up with water.

The only way to create something that nobody hates is to ensure that it can't be loved either. Remove enough spice from soup, and you'll just end up with water.

All great art is hated

I don't have to believe," the voice drifted back. "I know gods exist. I simply hate them.

Your father never fit in here either. He never fit in anywhere. It's part of what I like about him." Troubled

Remember, obedience is defiance.

Intentarán definirte por medio de algo que no eres -dijo Jasnah-. No lo permitas. Yo puedo ser erudita, mujer, historiadora, Radiante. La gente seguirá intentando clasificarme por lo que me vuelve ajena a ellos. La ironía es que pretenden que lo que no soy, o aquello en lo que no creo, se mi principal seña de identidad. Siempre lo he rechazado, y voy a seguir haciéndolo.

Silence spread from him like a bad smell.

I don't think so. Beth didn't get any presents.

When we reject the truth of someone's story—the ultimate failure of story stewardship—it's often because we've stealthily centered ourselves in their story, and the narrative takeover is about protecting our ego, behavior, or privilege. The less diverse our lived experiences, the more likely we are to find ourselves struggling with narrative takeover or narrative tap-out.

It takes a lot of courage to share your hurt with someone. It takes even more courage to do it twice—especially after they shut you down the first time.

I also struggle with the fear that if I say no everyone is going to stop asking.

When we dig past the surface, we find that shame is often what drives us to hate our bodies, fear rejection, stop taking risks or hide the experiences and parts of our lives that we fear others might judge. This same dynamic applies to feeling attacked as a mother or feeling too stupid or uneducated to voice our opinions.

At the exact time that our society embraces shaming, blaming, judgment, and rejection, it also holds acceptance and belonging as immensely important. In other words, it's never been more impossible to 'fit in,' yet 'fitting in' has never been more important and valued

When we reject the truth of someone's story—the ultimate failure of story stewardship—it's often because we've stealthily centered ourselves in their story, and the narrative takeover is about protecting our ego, behavior, or privilege

we simply prefer approval over disapproval).

However, no matter how much the lists vary, one item is on every list I've seen: the fear of social rejection. We can never forget that we experience social pain and physical pain in the same part of our brains, and the potential exposure to either type of pain drives fear.

hurt feelings are most often caused by people with whom we have close relationships when we feel devalued or rejected by the other person. Most behaviors that result in hurt feelings are not intended to be hurtful; they typically involve actions that are thoughtless, careless, or insensitive. However, "the more intentional an action is perceived [as], the more hurtful it feels.

But I have plenty of experience with trying to meet everyone's expectations so they won't reject me. It's easy to become a slave to that - to lose yourself in it.

No is the wildest word we consign to the language

No sense in chasing something that doesn't want to be caught" -Poppy

The willingness to keep growing: Unfaithfulness is a refusal to become, a rejection of grace (grace that is inactive is an illusion), and the refusal to be oneself.

Young Christians are sick of pablum. It doesn't work anymore. They are tired of rabbinical hair-splitting, empty liturgical apparatus, Sunday school minutiae, the ghostly voices of the old regime; they reject stuck minds and methods and by their indifference to structures and traditional authorities