Rejection And Abandonment Quotes

#1. The primary concern of the human animal is to avoid rejection and abandonment.

Laura Schlessinger

#2. Owing to a poorly defined sense of self, people with BPD rely on others for their feelings of worth and emotional caretaking. So fearful are they of feeling alone that they may act in desperate ways that quite frequently bring about the very abandonment and rejection they're trying to avoid.

Kimberlee Roth

#3. Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#4. The problem with proving something is that instead of leaving you alone people never stop giving you new things to prove, harder things.

Marlon James

#5. While therefore your tears flow, let a due proportion be tears of joy. Yet take the bitter cup with both hands and sit down to your repast. You will soon learn a secret: that there is sweetness at the bottom.

Adoniram Judson

#6. Life is an experiment. The more experiments the better

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. Many of us find it hard to set boundaries and defend them because we fear doing so will cause rejection or abandonment. We may avoid confrontations to make things easier. We may feel guilt if we say no or if we think we might hurt someone's feelings. We fear boundaries will keep us from being loved.

Adelyn Birch

#8. You can't be in Bridge Four. We're bodyguards for your own family. What are you going to do? Guard yourself?

Brandon Sanderson

#9. In the Dodge City of romantic love, crowded with betrayal, abandonment and rejection, it was better to fire first than to take the risk of being gunned down.

Edward St. Aubyn

#10. The problem that I think I have with God is often not a problem at all. Rather, it is most frequently a tired misperception where I have made God what I need Him to be in order to justify my rejection of Him.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#11. You're able to accomplish anything you set out to accomplish.

Pierre Omidyar

#12. We live as if life will never end.

Lailah Gifty Akita