I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“To me, the words “food” and “guilt” didn’t belong in the same sentence unless, say, you were referring to how you felt… — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
“I turn away, tempted to punch the glass. I'm in the gratest danger of my life, and I'm playing with my hair… — Shannon Messenger Copy Share Image
You’re so sweet,' Frypan said with a snort. 'Go ahead and die with Thomas. I think I’ll sneak away and enjoy living… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
You can't let doubt or fear or guilt eat away at you. You are good and you need to remember that above… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
“To guard against the intolerable feeling of shame, we may fold ourselves up and hide in the darkest corner. We may apologize… — Harriet Lerner, Ph.D Copy Share Image
“Taking trips tore all of us up inside, for they seemed, each journey away from home, something that might have been less… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of shame in American race relations. There's a lot of suppressed guilt that lashes itself out still.… — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
White privilege is the other side of racism. Unless we name it, we are in danger of wallowing in guilt or moral… — Paula Rothenberg Copy Share Image
I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I… — Amy Adams Copy Share Image
Why do we hold onto negativity? For some reason, we believe that others are affected by our experience of remaining upset, hurt… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Natural Giving: Anything we do in life which is not out of that energy, we pay for and everybody else pays for.… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Guilt is our morality shame and guards our conscience. It tells us we have transgressed our values. It moves us to take… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Repeat the same action over and over again, and eventually it will feel right. Eventually, there isn't even any guilt.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
People feel guilty. And guilt is stymieing. Guilt immobilizes. Guilt closes the air ducts and the veins, and makes people ignorant. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Key Learning: Shame derives its power from being unspeakable. That’s why it loves perfectionists—we’re so easy to keep quiet. If” — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
God Who delivers us from the guilt of sin through faith in Jesus Christ, is able to deliver the believer from the… — J. Edwin Orr Copy Share Image
Much of the time, the things we feel guilty about are not our issues. Another person behaves inappropriately or in some way… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I… — Rosamund Lupton Copy Share Image
If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“If guilt was an animal then it would be an octopus. All slimy and wriggly with hundreds of arms that wrap around… — Annabel Pitcher Copy Share Image
“First, guilt-tripping doesn’t work as a campaigning strategy. If you make people feel bad about what they do, you must give them… — Mark Lynas Copy Share Image
“Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“I don't think anyone could write a completely honest autobiography. I am sure no one could bear to read it: My Past… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The one-sided exploitation of existential guilt is thought reform's trump card, and perhaps its most important source of emotional influence over its… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I cant say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if… — Bradley Cooper Copy Share Image
Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
“It's always so satisfying when you can twist someone's hatred into guilt--make her realize that she was wrong, too quick to judge,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“The mind fabricates and believes in whatever it wants to conclude is true because of what occurs on the spur of the… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“To think that you don’t have a choice is actually a choice that’s an attempt to relieve you of the guilt of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter whether I'm judged criminal. I have a great feeling of guilt - I have a feeling that I ran… — Hans Frank Copy Share Image
Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation of all happiness; for riches, power, rank, or whatever, in the common acceptation ofthe word,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
[John F. Kennedy] kept a diary and in the White House dictated his thoughts. He felt real guilt at the killing of… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image