“Gabriel Edward Mackie, born with soulful maturity and an intrinsic sense of empathy, gazed at life through a poetic contemplative lens relishing… — JoDee Neathery Copy Share Image
When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The best definition I've heard is that guilt is about what you've done, shame is about who you are. If something's out… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
That's the strangest thing about this life, about being in the ministry. People change the subject when they see you coming. And… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“SHAME-BASED FAMILIES AND MULTIGENERATIONAL ILLNESS One of the devastating aspects of toxic shame is that it is multigenerational. The secret and hidden… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
In Staten Island, when you have video showing the alleged chokehold used on Eric Garner, why not go to trial and have… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Listen. In every office you hear the threads of love and joy and fear and guilt, the cries for celebration and reassurance,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How else could she explain the things she’d thought of late, the way she had acted? All this guilt, this doubt, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we don't forgive ourselves for our mistakes, and others for the wounds they have inflicted upon us, we end up crippled… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
“What happens is our lives become so heavily oriented around the expectations of others that we become more and more like them… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness; the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission,… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“The guilt of moving on seeps into my life every time I do something I thought I couldn’t do without you. Every… — Stephanie Ericsson Copy Share Image
Everyone sees something different in 'Endgame': a biblical apocalypse, a portrait of painful co-dependency, a confession of guilt and dignity in the… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
When men have appreciated the countless differences which the exercise of that judgment must necessarily produce, when they have estimated the intrinsic… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Your actions are your own. Your choices are your own. Each of us carries a burden of guilt for decisions made or… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagined that grief anf guilt, if… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I do not view suicide as wicked, just terribly sad. There is only one death, but it is like a stone cast… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
“The panicked feeling of a guilty conscience never squeezes at your heart or wakes you in the middle of the night. Despite… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
FAQ regarding my book were not about my use of commas or how the images went berserk, but about the political situation… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
“To understand how shame is influenced by culture, we need to think back to when we were children or young adults, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But when we make choices that are different than what our friends are doing, it might seem to them that we are… — Jennetta Billhimer Copy Share Image
“The most effective weapon a parent has to control a child is the withdrawal of love or its threat. A young child… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“Toxic shame results from the unexpected exposure of vulnerable aspects of a child’s self. This exposure takes place before the child has… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It is the unspeakable misery of a life so false as his, that it steals the pith and substance out of whatever… — Nathaniel Hawthorne 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
We are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. We grow up with this idea, and as… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
What is the point of abusing yourself with guilt in the first place? If you did make a mistake and act in… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
“women are more likely to experience guilt when they engage in leisure activities in the home. This conflicted sense of leisure is… — Nick Yee Copy Share Image
I see a lot of people who have amazing stories but have been told that their work, their lives, and their stories… — Faith Adiele Copy Share Image
“I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
Oh, what peril attaches to sin willfully committed! For it is so difficult for man to bring himself to penance, and without… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
Shame has its place. Shame is what you do to a kid to stop them running on the road. And then you… — Hannah Gadsby Copy Share Image
My aim is to lay bare and proclaim the crying and horrible guilt of the bloody doctrine of persecution as one of… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
It’s not just what you eat that matters, it’s what eats you. You can have all the right macrobiotics and organic food,… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
To believe that man's aggressiveness or territoriality is in the nature of the beast is to mistake some men for all men,… — Leon Eisenberg Copy Share Image
“The things white folks put people through--my god, cruel in ways I just can't even reconcile. Should be ashamed for a thousand… — Cebo Campbell Copy Share Image
