When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
Most of the time when people act out of defense, it's because they're guilty about something. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I think shame is the most profound of all emotions; I think the world is ruled by shame.” — J.R. Salamanca Copy Share Image
If you don't want to live in guilt clean up whatever mess you've made as best you can and move on. — Kishore Bansal 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
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
More often than not, the belief that you are bad contributes to the "bad" behavior. Change and learning occur most readily when… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
Some people are guilty when they win. Some people, "Ah, you know, it's so unfortunate, some people had to lose." I mean,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Had Adam tenderly reproved his wife, and endeavored to lead her to repentance instead of sharing in her guilt, I should be… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
“When my mother would tell me that she wanted me to have something because she as a child had never had it,… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“All throughout the Christian ages, and especially since the French Revolution, the Western world has been haunted by the idea of freedom… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Guilt must not be allowed to fester in the silence of the soul, poisoning it from within. It needs to be confessed.… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Metaphysical guilt is the lack of absolute solidarity with the human being as such--an indelible claim beyond morally meaningful duty. This solidarity… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
“SHAME AS AN IDENTITY (THE INTERNALIZATION PROCESS) Any human emotion can become internalized. When internalized, an emotion stops functioning as an emotion… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Whenever I made a mistake or a sin, as long as I am happy at that very moment. I felt no guilt… — Yvonne Copy Share Image
Write down what you feel guilty about. Now, with the biggest, reddest marker you can find, cross it out-delete it. — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life” — Lynette Gould Copy Share Image
The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Shake off what didn't work out. Shake off the guilt. Move forward with your life. — Aray Copy Share Image
Corporations aren't people. They have no brains, no consciences, no capacity for intent or guilt. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I'm going to get an ice cream cone two or three times a week, then it's a pleasure. No guilt. — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
Anger, depression, guilt, and shame are the product of the thinking that is at the base of violence on our planet. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“We are not punished for our sins, we are punished by them. We can't live with guilt for the whole of our… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
Saying Sorry doesn't mean there isn't guilt and forgiving doesn't mean the pain is gone. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
