Rejection

rejection
noun 1. denial, veto, dismissal, exclusion, abandonment, spurning, casting off, disowning, thumbs down, renunciation, repudiation, eschewal

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“Do not waste yourself in rejection; do not bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good”
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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Well, I Have Lost You


Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say what you will, kings in a tumbrel rarely
Went to their deaths more proud than this one went.
Some nights of apprehension and hot weeping
I will confess; but that's permitted me;
Day dried my eyes; I was not one for keeping
Rubbed in a cage a wing that would be free.
If I had loved you less or played you slyly
I might have held you for a summer more,
But at the cost of words I value highly,
And no such summer as the one before.
Should I outlive this anguish—and men do—
I shall have only good to say of you.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

A dor a mais

*Photo by Maria Isabel Barbosa, "Amor de Fim de Tarde"

A dor a mais

Foi só muito amor
Muito amor demais
Foi tanta a paixão
Que o meu coração, amor
Nem soube mais
Inventei a dor
E como ela nos doeu

Ah, que solidão buscar perdão
No corpo teu
Tanto tempo faz
Tens um outro amor, eu sei
Mas nunca terás
A dor a mais
Como eu te dei
Porque a dor a mais
Só na paixão
Com que eu te amei




Vinicius de Moraes

in Poesia completa e prosa: "Cancioneiro"

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Self-Esteem

In psychology, self-esteem reflects a person's overall evaluation or appraisal of his or her own worth.
(...)

Synonyms or near-synonyms of self-esteem include: self-worth, self-regard, self-respect, self-love (which can express overtones of self-promotion), self-integrity. Self-esteem is distinct from self-confidence and self-efficacy, which involve beliefs about ability and future performance.

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"Se eu não gostar de mim, quem gostará?"

“To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.”



Mirror


I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful --
The eye of a little god, four-cornered.
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.
It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long
I think it is part of my heart. But it flickers.
Faces and darkness separate us over and over.

Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.

Sylvia Plath

Sehnsucht

Sehnsucht is a German word that literally means "longing" or in a wider sense a kind of "intensely missing". However, Sehnsucht is almost impossible to translate adequately and describes a deep emotional state. (...) It is this close relationship (encapsulated in one word) between ardent longing or yearning (das Sehnen) and addiction (die Sucht ) that lurks behind each longing, waiting to turn the feeling into a destructive, self-defeating force. (...)

Lewis denotes by Sehnsucht the "inconsolable longing" in the human heart for "we know not what."

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“Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes”
(Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)

*Photo by Paulo Evangelista, "Esse Beijo"

“Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then”

(unknown author)

If this is "fading"


If this is "fading"
Oh let me immediately "fade"!
If this is "dying"
Bury me, in such a shroud of red!
If this is "sleep,"
On such a night
How proud to shut the eye!
Good Evening, gentle Fellow men!
Peacock presumes to die!

Emily Dickinson

Understanding

Understanding (...) is a psychological process related to an abstract or physical object, such as a person, situation, or message whereby one is able to think about it and use concepts to deal adequately with that object.
An understanding is the limit of a conceptualisation. To understand something is to have conceptualised it to a given measure.

(...)

Is understanding definable?
It is difficult to define understanding. (...) Whatever definition is proposed, we can still ask how it is that we understand the thing that is featured in the definition: we can never satisfactorily define a concept, still less use it to explain understanding.
Thomas Edison believed that (...) when one acknowledges that she/he stands below someone or something else, she/he makes him/herself receptive to obtain and retain information from it, thereby allowing for understanding to occur.
It may be more convenient to use an operational or behavioural definition, that is, to say that somebody who reacts appropriately to X understands X.

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“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” (Robert McCloskey)

“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.” (Elbert Hubbard)

“Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.” (Chinese Proverb)

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“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”

(Elbert Hubbard)

Speech is one symptom of Affection



Speech is one symptom of Affection
And Silence one—
The perfectest communication
Is heard of none—




Exists and its indorsement
Is had within—
Behold, said the Apostle,
Yet had not seen!


Emily Dickinson

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