Quotes Tagged With :defensive

Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn,....

We as ambitious human beings can maintain self respect by influencing ourselves to behave as civil human....

Suddenly finding myself imprisoned in the ruins of the fortresses I created, I realize that that which....

She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.

A child's (or an adult's) nervous system may detect danger or a threat to life when the child enters....

Soon he essentially stopped talking. "I am retreating into silence as a defensive mode," he mentioned.....

DENIALDefense mechanism in which the existence of unpleasant realities is disavowed; refers to keeping....

Playing nice" comes naturally when our neuroception detects safety and promotes physiological states....

I see how you look at me,” spits the hateful man. He thinks we look upon him with the evil eye when....

The ego with its protective defense mechanisms is the biggest impediment to attaining spiritual growth.....