...to say...that Laetrile should not be continued to be used by those who are suffering from terminal cancer, I would have to… — Luther L. Bohanon Copy Share Image
When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Healthy shame is an emotion that teaches us about our limits. Like all emotions, shame moves us to get our basic needs… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
You let go of the past, and stop bringing the past into the present and replaying it into the future. You release… — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
One, Andrew Carnegie said, ‘He who dies with wealth dies in shame.’ And someone once said, ‘He who gives while he lives… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
It's a shame to see these young chicks bungle their lives away in a flurry and rush to compete with what was… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
“I blushed. You haven't seen a bald man in his sixties blush? Oh, it happens, just as it does to a hairy,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If guilt tells us that we've done something wrong, then shame tells us that we are something wrong. So many people feel… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“He was tired and full of shame, and if Ernestino and the others wouldn’t brave this rain, he would go it alone,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The deeper purpose of a more positive attitude toward men is a better life for the children who are parented by the… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
In marriage people get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person. If you do… — Aaron Paul Copy Share Image
People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it.… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I think it's a shame that we have 'Bild' like you have the 'Sun'. Now serious newspapers like 'FAZ' and 'Spiegel' use… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“Cause shame was what we always felt, me and all my girlfriends, for expecting sex to breed complicity. ("Complicity is like a… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
Shame on me, for me to have this platform and me to have this opportunity to stand up for something that I… — Andrew Hawkins Copy Share Image
Here it is, 2011, and I feel zero shame when I tell you I would like to marry my smartphone. It is… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried. — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
In this condition of the most devastating humiliation, I still possessed the most precious of liberties, that no-one could take away from… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
God forbid that I should ever suffer the shame of publishing a book for money, or of having one of my family… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside, And naked on the Air of Heaven ride, Is it not a Shame--is… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
There should be no more shame in acknowledging (mental illness) than in acknowledging a battle with high blood pressure or the sudden… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“Can I ask you something?" you said. "How did you ever survive that scandal?" She said, "I refused to be shamed." "How… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“A wasteland of embarrassment and social upheaval can be neatly avoided by following a single precept in life: Do not lie.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Her heart's too hurt...you frightened her. And she's such a straight lady--she sees shame where some of us just see people. — Margo Lanagan Copy Share Image
Mine would be, "We will stand together, he and I. One in victory, one in shame. Only then can I truly own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Rest is the ultimate humiliation because in order to rest, we must admit we are not necessary, that the world can get… — Michael Yaconelli Copy Share Image
“Superachievement and perfectionism are two of the leading cover-ups for toxic shame. As paradoxical as it may seem, the straight-A student and… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I can see us, living in the woods, her wearing that A, me with a S maybe, S for silent, S for… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
First day home I dived in it, left her thighs dented Now that bitch be pagin me every five minutes Mcs I… — Big L Copy Share Image
Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
I know of a world that is sunk in shame, Where hearts oft faint and tire; But I know of a Name,… — J. Chapman Copy Share Image
“Life makes fools of us all sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
