Defense Mechanism Quotes
Defense Mechanism Quote of the day
I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world.
I don't like smiley pictures. A smile is a defense mechanism. It says, You can't have the real me but here's my smile. You get closer to the real person when they stop smiling.
I could always make people around me laugh. It was more of a defense mechanism more than anything else, because I was a pretty shy guy.
Humor was also a defense mechanism from getting picked on at school. If I could be funny maybe people wouldn't bother me.
I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.
..but maybe this was a defense mechanism. Maybe my mind was making me see things I refused to accept were gone forever. It was filling the void, because that was easier than letting go.
Humor is his defense mechanism, so that would allow me to talk about some serious subjects, but get a lot of hilarious jokes in.
Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it.
Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.
I was persisting in reading my present environment in the light of my old one.
We think that boxes take everything that’s bad and they lock all that nasty stuff out, when in reality they take everything that we are and they lock all of those great things in.
Professing not to care is a primordial defense mechanism. Whenever a person finds oneself mired in failure and despondency, rebelling is a viable option to preserve false personal pride.
The ego with its protective defense mechanisms is the biggest impediment to attaining spiritual growth.