The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Drop guilt! - because to be guilty is to live in hell. Not being guilty, you will have the freshness of dewdrops… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Like all working mothers, I have guilt. Because I have to leave for work, I feel guilty about leaving for anything else. — Sara Evans Copy Share Image
I never think of my audience when I write a poem. I try to write out of whatever is haunting me; in… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
No-fault guilt: This is when, instead of trying to figure out who's to blame, everyone pays. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving… — John Milton Copy Share Image
No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here. — Heather Locklear Copy Share Image
“A pang of guilt, like a blaring siren, should never be ignored.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
The cross of Christ is the all-sufficient ground for the salvation of sinners. It claims to be sturdy enough to support the… — Philip Graham Ryken Copy Share Image
Fear and guilt are your only enemies. If you let go of fear, fear lets go of you. If you release guilt,… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
You said to me once that you weren’t what I dreamed of. You were right. You surpass everything I dreamed of. Even… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others. — Mason Cooley 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
My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places whether in church, bedchamber, street,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
When I look at you, all I can do is say to myself is, How did someone so sweet become a jerk?… — Emma Hampton Copy Share Image
What kind of guilt comes from being true to yourself but not to others?. As we have seen, being true to yourself… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I once got a huge, expensive flower arrangement from a person I didn't like, who sent it out of pure guilt. It… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
“I can just conceive of the pit of despair, the notion of being powerless and the essence of existence through it entirely” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image