Live by what you believe so fully that your life blossoms, or else purge the fear-and-guilt producing beliefs from your life. When… — Roger Delano Hinkins Copy Share Image
“She turned; she bruised under her heel the scaly head of this dark suspicion-as terrifying to her as his guilt was to… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Trump gives progressives a way to channel whatever guilt they might have - whether from preventing homebuilding, benefitting from unfair taxes and… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
“Denial, when one was accused, was a life force, and would trump any desire to confess. Perhaps this was the animal strength… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Funny thing, your brain, how it always functions on one level or another. How, even stuck in some sort of subconcious limbo,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; .in the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Attitude Is Everything We live in a culture that is blind to betrayal and intolerant of emotional pain. In New Age crowds… — Sandra Lee Dennis Copy Share Image
No sin is committed merely because a thought enters the mind, provided it is not made welcome. Perhaps we may use the… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Moreover, there is this completely false trial. I would participate wholeheartedly in a trial if it were to determine the guilt for… — Hans Fritzsche Copy Share Image
Only when we accept and forgive all that is or has been the good, the bad, and the ugly of our human… — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
“You think you’re annoyed because of Plikt’s arrogance, but that isn’t so. Plikt is not arrogant; she is merely precise. You are… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I rushed to the bathroom for every corner of the hospital was suffocating. I got hold of acid-bottle, which was meant for… — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
“Toxic shame, the shame that binds us, is experienced as the all-pervasive sense that “I am flawed and defective as a human… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths:… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
I always know it's Sunday because I wake up feeling apologetic. That's one of the cool things about being a Catholic .… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“I always had a bad conscience whenever vehicles had to stop because of me, a kind of imbalance arose, I felt as… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
“When we hold secrets it creates shame, and shame is a great barrier to success because when you carry the shame you… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“Our healthy shame is essential as the foundation of our spirituality. By reminding us of our essential limitations, our healthy shame lets… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“Blame and English Speakers In the same article, Boroditsky notes that in English, we’ll often say that someone broke a vase even… — Jessica Gross Copy Share Image
Everyone comes here for pleasure. Even if they think they don't. Embracing it is harder for some and they go mad before… — Marianne de Pierres Copy Share Image
“Och, away now, Ruari. You'll be telling us you're not knowing who that woman is next! Man, man, that's an awful affliction.”… — Robertson Tait Copy Share Image
The day came. The wrath descended. Sin, guilt, and retribution? The manic psychoses of those entities we referred to as states, institutions,… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I didn't wake up one day and say, I have to tell O.J.'s Simpson story. But what drew me to it wasn't… — Ezra Edelman Copy Share Image
Whenever I think of how religion started, I picture some frustrated old man making out a list of all the ways he… — Steve Blake Copy Share Image
I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point does a healthy… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
We carry on. We have ourselves and we carry on- in spite of our losses and mistakes and women, I think, have… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
I didn't even know a heart could beat so loudly...it reminds me of an Edgar Allen Poe story we had to read… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
To put it bluntly and plainly, if Christ is not my Substitute, I still occupy the place of a condemned sinner. If… — Leon Morris Copy Share Image
I am utterly against any kind of guilt. Remember it always: if you start feeling guilty about something around me, then you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The Miguel Syjuco character is not me. I wanted him to represent my own fears and frustrations and guilt, my own worst… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
“In our culture, guilt is a tainted word, but it’s probably one of the building blocks of conscience. The anxiety these highly… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
We feel properly embarrassed when we are caught doing something that makes us look inept, knuckleheaded, or inappropriate. Maybe the difference is… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
“Solitude is an interesting companion. It is both enemy and friend, comforter and tormentor. I spent a lot of time in Dun… — Jennifer Fallon Copy Share Image
There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
“Though many pet parents believe that their dogs experience guilt, there is no evidence that this is true. In order for our… — Jennifer Arnold Copy Share Image
Do you know why this world is as bad as it is?... It is because people think only about their own business,… — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
Working in the arts, you see people who come from terrible circumstances and who, for whatever reason, have incredible talent. But of… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
![“There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious landscapes from nameless foes; that place is, of course, the world of dreams and of the repressed guilts and fears that motivate them [i.e., the unconscious]. This…” quote by Leslie Fiedler](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/dfc/leslie-fiedler-13246_age_there-is-a-place-in-men-s-lives-where-pi_2758654.jpg)
