You can call me lame, you can say I have shame. You can say I have grace, but I must show some… — Vicki Boo Copy Share Image
“It is better to stay single and wait for the one that makes sense then to marry someone that makes absolutely no… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“The more I drank to relieve my shame-based loneliness and hurt, the more I felt ashamed. Shame begets shame. The cycle begins… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“When we apologize for something we’ve done, make amends, or change a behavior that doesn’t align with our values, guilt—not shame—is most… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
When I was hospitalized in 1992 with severe clinical depression I thought I was the only one. I didn't know of one… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Kyo Sohma: One of these days I'll make you say you're sorry Yuki Sohma: looking bored I'm sorry. Kyo Sohma: Dammit That's… — Natsuki Takaya Copy Share Image
I learned many lessons from my first race with my heroes. I learned it was easier to breathe when I cried, so… — Robyn Benincasa Copy Share Image
What sort of attractions do you think lured our coreligionists out of the ghetto and into the mainstream of European culture? Was… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
Theirs is the banner in my hand. And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's like there's a pulsating, hidden world, governed by ancient laws and principles, underlying everything around us - from the movements of… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
I am Sa’kagé a lord of shadows. I claim the shadows that the Shadow may not." [...] "I am the strong arm… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be .. but it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and one means… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
You can't take credit for your talents, but it matters that you use them. You can't really be blamed for your weaknesses,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Moon grew up, lost weight and became a famous singer, which proves that there is no justice in the universe, or that… — Marilyn Chin Copy Share Image
“SHAME AS AN IDENTITY (THE INTERNALIZATION PROCESS) Any human emotion can become internalized. When internalized, an emotion stops functioning as an emotion… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Where the very safety of the country depends upon the resolution to be taken, no consideration of justice or injustice, humanity or… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
“Kaufman terms the “internal shame spiral.” He describes it as follows: A triggering event occurs. Perhaps it is trying to get close… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
We're talking about everybody's free right to have choice. And so what we're also getting are interesting messages like you really need… — Asra Nomani Copy Share Image
I believe one of our souls' major purposes is to know, love, and express our authentic selves. To live the life and… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes,… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
I would never advise anyone to stay in the closet to further their careers - I'm sure it leads to big fat… — Ben Daniels Copy Share Image
There are moments when it frightens us, threatening to expose us as inauthentic. Well, the big-time impostors we read about in literature… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
The urgency for me is to hurry up and become visible enough to either influence or shame other artists or corporations into… — Aloe Blacc Copy Share Image
“She took no pleasure from the very things I loved, from her size, her amplitude, her luscious, zaftig heft. As many times as I… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
The desert floras shame us with their cheerful adaptations to the seasonal limitations. Their whole duty is to flower and fruit, and… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
Alone thou goest forth, O Lord, in sacrifice to die; is this thy sorrow naught to us who pass unheeding by? Our… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I can still see her face -- The sorrow in her eyes, her voice, as she condemns me. I didn't know it… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
There is something embarrassing in... the way in which, ... turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, ... wounds… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The #metoo campaign picked up speed after the actress Alyssa Milano suggested that if every woman simply typed 'me too' on their… — Emily Chang Copy Share Image
“The terror of being judged sharpens the memory: it sends an inevitable glare over that long-unvisited past which has been habitually recalled… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“If we can find someone who has earned the right to hear our story, we need to tell it. Shame loses power… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
She puts on a smile, and her tears have dried, but the silence breaks the heart inside, she gets all pretty and… — Levita Charin Copy Share Image
She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Changes in Meaning: Finally, chronically traumatized people lose faith that good things can happen and people can be kind and trustworthy. They… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
He grunted. 'You have the courage of a warrior.' I watched him turn away and gather the clothes from the ground. He… — Alison Goodman Copy Share Image
When death comes, we take off our clothes and gather everything we left behind: what is dark, broken, touched with shame. When… — Linda Gregg Copy Share Image