“Guilt’s just your ego’s way of tricking you into thinking that you’re making moral progress.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The existence of guilty sense is so important in education and religion.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“Guilt is never as good a motivator as love, David. Act out of love. Do it because you love your son.” — Robert Dugoni Copy Share Image
Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with. — Craig Thompson Copy Share Image
How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt. — Robert Blair Copy Share Image
“Guilt is not a healthy emotion. It rots you from the inside out, turns you bitter.” — Blair Richmond Copy Share Image
I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
“She felt for a moment the child's guilt and panic that she was to blame for something-for finally getting to know him.… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
None seem to bear the imputation of supposed guilt with greater intolerance than such as are, on other occasions, obviously culpable of… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Did we risk our lives to defend a just society, where guilt must be proven and not assumed? Or are we no… — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the shame covers.… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
“Shame is embarrassment multiplied against itself until it dies under it’s own weight and we with it. Forgiveness is freedom multiplied against… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses… — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
“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
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
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
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
