They play it safe, are quick to assassinate what they do not understand. They move in packs ingesting more and more fear… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
“The greatest gift of having done this work (the research and the personal work) is that I can recognize shame when it’s… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“A person with internalized shame believes he is inherently flawed, inferior and defective.Such a feeling is so painful that defending scripts (or… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“Your mother left you. Trevor used you and gave you up. Your father is dead. None of it was your fault, yet… — S.J. Wright Copy Share Image
“The guilt you felt when you were smiling and others were suffering, the guilt you felt when you were petty with friends… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“If we feel guilty about some aspect of our sexuality, I hope we can understand where that's coming from within ourselves and… — Daniel Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“If you decide to do without a personal god it's illogical to saddle yourself with a legacy of JudeoChristian sin. That way… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown -- but the present is real, and your opportunities are… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
“When we hold secrets it creates shame, and shame is a great barrier to success. When you carry the shame you do… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
The very fears and guilts imposed by religious training are responsible for some of history's most brutal wars, crusades, pogroms, and persecutions,… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
“The presence of the inner feeling of emptiness directs our attention to a past experience of guilt and to our inner feeling… — Martha Char Love Copy Share Image
My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parents and my father's… — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
Where is my guilt? I can regret. I can regret that I made the party film, 'Triumph of the Will,' in 1934.… — Leni Riefenstahl Copy Share Image
“On the ration cards of Nazi Germany, there was no listing for punishment, but everyone had to take their turn. For some… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Nobody becomes a writer overnight. Well, I'm sure somebody did, but that person's head probably went all asplodey from paroxysms of joy,… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
The difference between guilt and shame is very clear--in theory. We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Perhaps you have been ensnared by a sinful habit that you will not abandon, and your guilt is so overwhelming you are… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
“I once was a stranger to grace and to God, I knew not my danger, and felt not my load; Though friends… — Robert Murray McCheyne Copy Share Image
“Expiating a sin does not mean doing something opposite to wallow in guilt, but to use that same guilt to achieve full… — Massimo Marino Copy Share Image
“He’s ashamed of himself, because he left you when you were three, did nothing for you, and you ended up being very… — Tiffany Haddish Copy Share Image
And to speak of this thing that they call 'LOVE.' Am I the only one who will ever understand it? Am I… — Amber Hope Copy Share Image
I just don't feel the whole white guilt and pussy-footing around race issues. I'm completely above all that. I've never worried about… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
If a hungry lion suddenly appeared, you'd be terrified. So terrified you'd probably run away. Great, fear's doing its job. But you… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
There's an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, although modern European guilt is currently described as though it is a terminal condition, there is no certainty that it will… — Douglas Murray Copy Share Image
My identity has always been confused. Born in Edinburgh of a Scottish/Russian/Jewish mother and an English/Irish/Catholic father, there is no form of… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The pressure to be thin, which causes guilt and obsessiveness around food, is terrible and starts so early. For me, it started… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
[Bill Clinton] has settled numerous lawsuits without admitting any guilt on a whole number of things. Are you saying, are you implying… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
I embrace treats, but I'm also very wary of treats. Treats help us feel energized, appreciated, and enthusiastic - but very often,… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“Just as the room of the Inquisitor in Dr. Talos's play, with its high judicial bench, lurked somewhere at the lowest level… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I have no creative use for guilt, yours or my own. Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action, of buying… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“I lay on my side with my head on the pillows and looked out of the window; the blue of the sky… — Hanne Ørstavik Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“Remembering your mistakes more acutely than any minor success. This was the worst. The things that kept you up at night. Tip… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“Yes. What is it, guilt, revenge, love, what?” I swallowed. “I live alone.” "And your point is?” "You have the Pack. You’re… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“You can see the same immorality or amorality in the Christian view of guilt and punishment. There are only two texts, both… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“guilt’s a whore. It goes with anybody, but it’s not good in bed. You’re not dying, but this thing you’ve got with… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image