“Once upon a time there was a mother who, in order to become a mother, had agreed to change her name; who… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“We humans are finite, “perfectly imperfect.” Limitation is our essential nature. Grave problems result from refusing to accept our limits. Healthy shame… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Whatever happened to Warren Buffett, the world's their-richest man? Guilt, a feeling of being blessed by luck, forgotten lessons - who knows?… — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
“I remember that life in that room seemed to be occurring beneath the sea, time flowed past indifferently above us, hours and… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Family secrets can go back for generations. They can be about suicides, homicides, incest, abortions, addictions, public loss of face, financial disaster,… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“I should have seen it coming.” The words don’t surprise me, but they piss me off. I pull away and glare down… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
It does seem like if you're an interesting person and you have endless amounts of money to indulge your fantasies, then those… — Lawrence Douglas Copy Share Image
“It is the especial duty of all churches, and of all believers, to search diligently into what God finds fault with, in… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“Along with many other professionals, I’ve come to the conclusion that shame is much more likely to lead to destructive and hurtful… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“What’s the difference between shame and guilt? The majority of shame researchers and clinicians agree that the difference between shame and guilt… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. .… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
People grow up learning to be silent about their sexuality, so where are they going to learn to talk about it when… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
The distinction between shame and guilt is very important, since these two emotions may tear a person in opposite directions. The wish… — Paul Ekman Copy Share Image
Certainly. But take this into consideration: of every ten problems we have, nine are created by our own selves - through guilt,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Many people think of our times as being the last before the end of the world. The evidence of horror all around… — Sophie Scholl Copy Share Image
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A charity which knows only how to give money is not yet Christian love. You will be free of guilt only when… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
“Heaven entails hell, and ‘going to heaven’ is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I always have the feeling we are merely fearfully trying to save room for God; I would rather speak of God at… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“3. Blame. Whenever things don’t turn out as planned, blame yourself or others. Blame is another defensive cover-up for shame. Blame maintains… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
We've been taught that the Christian life is a life of peace, and when we don't have peace, we assume the problem… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Fellini was more in love with breasts than Russ Meyer, more wracked with guilt than Ingmar Bergman, more of a flamboyant showman… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I think guilt is the biggest problem in America, people are always feeling guilty about being themselves. You can't say what you… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
We can only live the changes we wish to see: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
My kids make me laugh every day. And they're so supportive. As I get older, they understand those things I worried about… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amount of… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
“(Please forgive us, reader. We have once more gone astray with this rightist opportunism—this concept of "guilt," and of the guilty or… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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
“Mrs. Norris had been talking to her the whole way from Northampton of her wonderful good fortune, and the extraordinary degree of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“We become paralysed with fear and guilt, obsessed by ‘labels’ and become unable to question the reasoning behind our beliefs or indeed… — Carole Carlton Copy Share Image
The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The Jews' guilt of the crucifixion of Jesus consigned them to perpetual servitude, and, like Cain, they are to be wanderers and… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
“The ending to this scene, I know it. Sirix will fail to return and Serena will still continue to wait. Even though… — Mizuho Kusanagi Copy Share Image
An older child, one who possesses a conscience, will be troubled with self-reproaches and feelings of shame for his naughtiness, even if… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
