Quotes About Defense Mechanisms

#1. Yeah, well, love doesn't always beat out the fear."
"Sometimes it does," he replied with a smile, pecking her on the nose.
"Christ, Driggs. You're turning into a Lifetime movie."
"Your defense mechanisms are captivating, as always.

Gina Damico

#2. As a child, one of my defense mechanisms was to try to be funny. My mom tried to nurture that by putting me in acting class. But I got bored when we stopped pretending to be trees and actually had to work.

Ian Gomez

#3. When we discover our Must, the brain's most primal, protective center gets alarmed. The riot gear is called forth. Defense mechanisms go up. Because choosing Must raises very real and scary questions.

Elle Luna

#4. thereby further effectuating the body's defense mechanisms i.e. the antiparasitic, antiviral, antibacterial and antifungal properties are underlined. For this reason, aloe vera should always be a part of a bowel cleanse.

Peter Simons

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

Kilroy J. Oldster

#6. Children picked up things on a different level than adults. They hadn't spent much time building up defense mechanisms and rationalizations for all the shitty things that happen in the world. Kids take everything straight, no chaser. It's later on we all start bullshitting ourselves. Dominic

Al Sarrantonio

#7. Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

Salman Rushdie

#8. Willows produce the defensive compound salicylic acid, which works in much the same way. But not on us. Salicylic acid, is a precursor of aspirin, and tea made from willow bark can relieve headaches and bring down fevers. Such defense mechanisms, of course, take time.

Peter Wohlleben

#9. All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists.

Steven Erikson

#10. The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark.

Paul Watson

#11. Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

Eckhart Tolle

#12. There is a vulnerability that any woman has in a situation where you're surrounded by men in an enclosed space. You learn through time different defense mechanisms, and it could be for protection, for emotional, physical, everything.

Katee Sackhoff

#13. Life has survived for more than three billion years because it is robust, and almost no mutations can easily outwit the defense mechanisms built up through eons of exposure to potential pathogens.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#14. What accounts for Luther's behavior? One things is certain: Whatever defense mechanisms normal people have to mute the accusing voice of conscience, Luther was lacking.

R.C. Sproul

#15. Cognitive insight (knowing something) is not like emotional insight (feeling something). It has no psychodynamic effects. It does not affect the narcissist's behavior patterns, or his interpersonal interactions - the products of well entrenched and rigid defense mechanisms.

Sam Vaknin

#16. The defense mechanisms of The Imposter are: sarcasm, name-dropping, self-righteousness, the need to impress others and the need for others' approval.

Manning Brennan

#17. That's what a little victory in psychiatry looks like. You slip into the shadows, dodging the mind's defense mechanisms, glad enough to take a half-step toward the truth. Behind the next word or the next glance may lurk the demon you seek, all in flames, desperate to be held, but set to flee. (8)

Keith Ablow

#18. Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

#19. There is only one reality: the act of feeling ourselves in the process of making choices.

Erich Fromm

#20. Best wishes to you on your birthday
may the day be filled with happiness,
a day that's so special for you
and memories you will cherish.

Susan Smith

#21. I was happy before I met him. But I'm alive now, and those are not the same thing.

Nicola Yoon

#22. Give up being right. Instead radiate peace, harmony, love, and laughter from your heart.

Deepak Chopra

#23. What are you going to do when you are not saving the world.

Hans Zimmer

#24. Giving to other people is what makes me feel alive. Not my car or not my house. Not what I look in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad, it's as close to healthy as I ever feel.

Mitch Albom

#25. Fashion has always been my defense mechanism.

Rihanna

#26. La-Z-Boy type thing covered with bronze and silver gears. Kronos slashed, and I managed to jump straight up onto the seat. The throne whirred and hummed with secret mechanisms. Defense mode, it warned. Defense mode.

Rick Riordan

#27. The Incarnate One is truly human as well as truly divine, and so properly spoken of as our friend and brother as well as our Lord and God.

Preston Sprinkle

#28. What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop.

Peggy Lee

#29. After the heavy rain, we want to see the hot sun on the throne! After the hot sun, we want to see the heavy rain on the throne! Too see the same thing or the same person on the throne brings disaster!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#30. My main fight is for freedom and equality.

Muhammad Ali

#31. Nothing has happened to you unless you make much of it.

Menander