“I smell guilt. There is a stench of guilt upon the air. I see you all, whole and healthy, with your powers… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
And sure enough,the youth in question was not his usual dapper self. His face was puffy, his eyes red and wild; his… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
A different kind of pleasure surfaced in the aftermath, the pleasure of seeing the towers fall time and again, the experience of… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Those who will repent and forsake sin will find that His merciful arm is outstretched still. Those who listen to and heed… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Nothing is an accident: it's always someone's fault; perhaps-but no one teaches us how to live with our mistakes. Everyone is isolated,… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
“A heavy weight of guilt drove me in my success. I felt like I needed to make up for all the money,… — Michael J Heil 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
“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
“Ask yourself something. Have you ever thought about why guys want you gone the next day? It’s not because they’ve got things… — Fisher Amelie Copy Share Image
It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Feeling bad is not the problem. The problem is that we feel bad about feeling bad. Once you begin to let go… — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“I should have forgiven him.” “Maybe. Maybe there’s more we all could have done,” he says, “but we just have to let… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
It is well known that the man who first made public the theory of irrationals perished in a shipwreck in order that… — Proclus Copy Share Image
My daughter Gabby very kindly once said that she thinks I was a better mother because I was doing a job I… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
By raising Christ from death, God as the supreme Judge set his seal to the absolute perfection and completeness of his atoning… — Geerhardus Vos Copy Share Image
No wonder women have achieved a more equal footing with men in areas they never fought for -- ulcers, hypertension, and heart… — Kathie Lee Gifford Copy Share Image
To create guilt, all that you need is a very simple thing: start calling mistakes, errors - sins. They are simply mistakes,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t say exactly what it was he’d taken. I only knew I was different now. I’d watched him murder a man… — Liliana Hart Copy Share Image
A lot of people are afraid of the idea of enslavement, and that's because it's tied to so much shame and guilt...… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
I certainly don't feel any more super than any of the other people I knew in my working life... Quite the reverse.… — Jennifer Rowe Copy Share Image
All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“After a decade of research, I found that men and women with high levels of shame resilience share these four elements: They… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
The whole guilt thing of not feeling Mexican enough was a big deal, too. On the one hand, you have your grandmother… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
Anyone who is suffering from shame and public humiliation needs to know one thing: You can survive it... You can insist on… — Monica Lewinsky Copy Share Image
There is, I think, far too much guilt generally in society around parenthood, about whether or not you breastfeed or whether or… — Jo Swinson Copy Share Image
Its guilt therefore in these cases, is not to be measure by its effects on the happiness of mankind; nor is it… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
To encounter Christ is to touch reality and experience transcendence. He gives us a sense of self-worth or personal significance, because He… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter what the manifest problem was in our childhood family. In a home where a child is emotionally deprived for… — M. Catherine Thomas Copy Share Image
“Another thing is that, despite all the confidence I have that the loving God cannot forsake me, the closer you come to… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Whoever thou art, whatever in other respects thy life may be, my friend, by ceasing to take part (if ordinarily thou doest)… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
[Jurors who are opposed to capital punishment are] more likely to believe that a defendant's failure to testify is indicative of his… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
“We must understand that those who experience abuse as children, and particularly those who experience incest, almost invariably suffer from a profound… — Cameron West Copy Share Image
Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“Just do your best — in any circumstance in your life. It doesn’t matter if you are sick or tired, if you… — Miguel Ruiz Copy Share Image
A lot of the guilt didn't help my drinking at that point. I never expected a divorce to happen in my life… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Given Freudian assumptions about the nature of children and the biological predestination of mothers, it is unthinkable for mothers voluntarily to leave… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
There's ten of us, we've been best friends for thirty years. Ten guys. And their wives, and their kids, are all family… — George Clooney Copy Share Image