Quotes About Rejection

Whether in science or the arts, if we look for the source of an achievement we can observe that what a man does either repeats or refutes what someone else has done — repeats it in other tones, refines or amplifies or simplifies it, loads or overloads it with meaning; or else rebuts, overturns, destroys, and denies it, but thereby assumes it and has invisibly used it. Opposites are born from opposites.

It must be the condition of our age. There are more explosions, but they are only the side effect of not accepting the nature of our wrongness, of believing it must be the world that is deformed instead— unsure whether to abandon or destroy it, some opt for both.

No matter how resilient children can be, or how wanted, loved, and nurtured they are by their new parents, the original wounds of abandonment and rejection aren't just magically healed. Grit and inner strength don't altogether heal those wounds, either, because the parenting piece is primal. Mothers and fathers are supposed to stay. That's the original human story, in every culture, since the beginning of time.

I made a face at her and pulled at the neck of my dress. "Want a smoke?

A clue can be taken from the discarded toys. Why does the child reject them? Because, according to Montessori, they do not bring the child into contact with reality. What the child wants and needs are objects and activities that can serve as a preparation for the adult world where he realizes he is one day to take his place.

I'll no' love ye, Kate Campbell. No' ever.

Good girls are the ones who are most hunted, married, and shut away in their homes like treasure. They live in a box, without light or air, between love and submission. Bad girls are rejected and left free. They fly anywhere they feel like going, like butterflies. They lend nature the color of their wings and breathe the fresh air of the fields, between love and freedom.

O pai d Delfina disse não à assimilação, sem saber que a libertação da pátria seria na língua dos brancos e sem imaginar ainda que os filhos dos assimilados iriam assumir o protagonismo da História.

I was fired by 'America's Next Top Model' on my birthday.

Le mandò un bacio e sparì, senza guardare Tatiana. E lei sperava disperatamente in un ultimo, fuggevole sguardo. Nella semioscurità avrebbe voluto sentire i suoi occhi dolci su di sé, leggervi la verità che aveva appena negato. Ma lui non la guardò, Tatiana non poté leggere nessuna verità. Vide solo che l'aveva rifiutata.

Oh, Tully, you really don't understand, do you? It's not a matter of going after him, don't you see?" Jennifer began to cry again. "Don't you see that if he wanted me, he would've seen by now what's so plain to me and to everyone else? He would've seen it. But he doesn't see it because he doesn't feel the same way.

Actually, what the rejected ones need—those forbidden to be, prevented from being—is not our tepidity but our warmth, our solidarity—yes, and our love, but an unfeigned love, not a mistrustful one, not a soppy love, but an 'armed' love.

Should not have accepted that their diagnosis was my truth.

She looks at me, this is not what she had expected, she sniffs at the food and only slowly starts to eat, swallows each mouthful with demonstrative gloom, and then turns to look at me again, a long look, with those eyes, sighs and goes on, as if she were emptying the poisoned chalice. Spoiled dog.

Don't waste your love on stupid people. Anyone stupid enough to deny or reject it—in the midst of the Love Depression we're in—does not deserve it.

The people that Love You LOVE YOU---and the people that Don't Never Will.

Toxic shame can also be created by constant parental neglect and rejection.

Self-criticism, then, runs non-stop in a desperate attempt to avoid rejection-inducing mistakes. Drasticizing becomes obsessive to help the child foresee and avoid punishment and worsening abandonment. At the same time, it continuously fills her psyche with stories and images of catastrophe. The survivor becomes imprisoned by a jailer who will accept nothing but perfection. He is chauffeured by a hysterical driver who sees nothing but danger in every turn of the road.

continued failure at winning their regard forces her to conclude that she is fatally flawed. She is loveless not because of her mistakes, but because she is a mistake. She can only see what is wrong with or missing in her.

To reach out for another is – to risk involvement. To expose feelings is – to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas, your dreams before the crowd is – to risk their loss. To love is – to risk not being loved in return.

Self-criticism, then, runs non-stop in a desperate attempt to avoid rejection-inducing mistakes. Drasticizing becomes obsessive to help the child foresee and avoid punishment and worsening abandonment. At the same time, it continuously fills her psyche with stories and images of catastrophe.

The outer critic is the counterpart of the self-esteem-destroying inner critic. It uses the same programs of perfectionism and endangerment against others that your inner critic uses against yourself. Via its all-or-none programming, the outer critic rejects others because they are never perfect and cannot be guaranteed to be safe.

Authentic sharing can be triggering, and sometimes flashes the survivor back to being punished or rejected for being vulnerable.

Perhaps there was no more detrimental consequence of our childhood abandonment than being forced to habitually hide our authentic selves. Many of us come out of childhood believing that what we have to say is as uninteresting to others as it was to our parents.