Here’s what I think: it’s one thing to know that rejection is coming, and it’s an entirely different thing when it arrives.

Everybody said, “Follow your heart”. I did, it got broken

It’s easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.

It’s common to reject or punish yourself when you’ve been rejected by others. When you experience disappointment from the way your family or others treat you, that’s the time to take special care of yourself....

When we are anxiously attached, our inability to trust the intentions and behaviors of others will often lead us to escalate situations and then reject attempts to reassure us. It is a painful and dramatic...

Wonderful, darling Oksana, allow me to kiss you!” the encouraged blacksmith said and pressed her to him with the intention of snatching a kiss; but Oksana withdrew her cheeks, which were a very short distance...

There are three certainties in a writer’s life: death, taxes, and rejection letters.

Rejection is merely a redirection; a course correction to your destiny.

Negation is the mind’s first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

Rejection refines us. Those who fall prey to its enervating soul-sucking tentacles are doomed. Those who persist past it are survivors. Best ask yourself the question: what kind of writer are you? The kind who...

Love is like a door—it’s either open or closed. Either that or it’s both—open to others, but closed to you.

I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke...

The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of the universe.

The presence of ghosts is only as close as your belief.The existence of aliens is only as far as your rejection.

Submit your story the same way you submit your heart. Let it break. Bruise it up. Let it get pummeled and sore and when you can’t take it anymore, throw it out there again.

I think he’s handling it with grace. A lot of teenage boys would sulk, or lurk around under your window with a boom box.

She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to abandon its object; love that disaster could not shake; love that, in calamity, waxed fonder, in poverty clung...

Question for your life: Let’s say we’re making love on the moon, and my clone decides to show up. Would you tell either me or him to get lost?

The first stage of ignorance is illusion, due to lack of exposure to reality. The second stage of ignorance is delusion, or the refusal to acknowledge reality. The third stage of ignorance is the rejection...

It can be depressing when no one takes interest, and a lack of response makes the writer question why they’re writing at all. To have one’s writing rejected is like you, yourself, are being rejected.

My choices are rejections, since there is no other way,but what I reject is more numerous,denser, more demanding than before.A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable loss.

We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most.

Strange, how the name Israel, God’s own chosen nation, who don’t believe Jesus to be the Messiah, sounds almost the same as saying “is He real?

Puberty is a phase… fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford]

It’s my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

The childhood sexual abuse taught me that my value came from sex. In adulthood, I was driven to have sex since I always felt worthless. I felt important and desired until it was over and...

I remember a time when I was rejected for speaking my truth. The rejection hurt very much. I kept going over and over in my mind my motives for sharing my truth, and each time...

Rejection Is God’s Protection When someone rejects or breaks up with you, it may be a blessing in disguise. The person was not right for you. Or maybe you would have eventually been miserable with...

Rejection is part of the game. Or rather, rejection is part of the profession. A profession which at times can feel like a game.

Your suffering needs to be respected. Don’t try to ignore the hurt, because it is real. Just let the hurt soften you instead of hardening you. Let the hurt open you instead of closing you....

Rejection, though–it could make the loss of someone you weren’t even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.

Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their...

How about 8:01?

Give rejection the finger, and rejection gives it back.

The most hurtful thing I have ever heard come from a friend is ‘ i think its best we cut all ties’ see for them it was just a friendship for me it was like...

Results of two independent factor analyses of the survey responses of more than 2000 English and American citizens parallel these findings (19,33):- fear and exclusion: persons with severe mental illness should be feared and, therefore,...

I know that when a door closes, it can feel like all doors are closing. A rejection letter can feel like everyone will reject us. But a closed door leads to clarity. It’s really an...

Do you like me?”No answer.Silence bounced, fell off his tongueand sat between usand clogged my throat.It slaughtered my trust.It tore cigarettes out of my mouth.We exchanged blind words,and I did not cry,I did not beg,but...

At first, one only recognizes particular instances to be worth of critique; critique appears synonymous with rejection, implying deficiency in the object. Over time, one discovers that everything warrants critique. This can produce cynicism: nothing...

Chase your dreams until you catch them…and then dream, catch, and dream again!

Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget it, or bear to be wholly forgotten by it. Disgusted at the guilt or absurdity of...

Any fool that had once helped you will someday make known to everyone that you were once a needy. No matter how broke you are, don’t ever be quick to ask for help, let it...

Rejection isn’t failure. Failure is giving up. Everybody gets rejected. It’s how you handle it that determines where you’ll end up.

Life happens, whether you’re in it or not, but death doesn’t give you a choice.

How often do we truly feel accepted?Are we aware of the collateral effects inflicted when we reject someone or something? How do we move on from a state of constant rejection?How do we gratefully accept...

Is love a gift from heaven? If it is, it’s often wrapped in disinterest and rejection.

I’m now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion.

Save the sugar for some other girl. This one’s had it up to here with people in general.

our hearts break, and take us out of relationships that are too painful for us

I can see Richard Wagner standing at the gates of heaven. “You have to let me in,” he says. “I wrote Parsifal. It has to do with the Grail, Christ, suffering, pity and healing. Right?”...