No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience…

No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge

— Jack Kerouac

Soul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity. You are God's lover, yet you worry what people…

— Rumi

I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.

— A. J. Jacobs

I did not experience language deprivation. I did have access to language and communication, ever since I was a little kid.

— Lauren Ridloff

I'm interested in a lot of the languages that drive our culture. I'm interested in user experience as language or how societal malaise takes…

— Michael Salu

“My French was neither good nor bad. I had enough to understand what people said to me, but speaking was difficult, and there were…

— Anonymous

“He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language.(Jeanette Winterson on T.S.Eliot)”

— Jeanette Winterson

Through panel moderations and talks around culture, politics and identity I gradually gained opportunities to write in my own voice and not that of…

— Michael Salu

“Words are anchors for sense experience, but the experience is not the reality, and the word is not the experience. Language is thus two…

— John Seymour

“For example, only some members of a hunting society have the experience of losing their weapons and being forced to fight a wild animal…

— Peter L. Berger

“Two people well connected to themselves will have a genuine lasting relationship. Not the one that lasts because of the fact that both people…

— Mohamadi Tapsoba

“Everyone freaks out. Sometimes the best we can do with fear is befriend it. Expect it and understand that fear will always reappear. Eventually…

— Harriet Lerner

“St. Ephrem being solicited to sin by a woman of evil life, professed his readiness, provided the scene of their transgression should be the…

— Anonymous

“Fear and shame are the backbone of my self-control. They are my source of inspiration, my insurance against becoming entirely unacceptable. They help me…

— Allie Brosh

“Shame is the deepest of the “negative emotions,” a feeling we will do almost anything to avoid. Unfortunately, our abiding fear of shame impairs…

— Gabor Maté