“He felt the guilt of inaction, of simply waiting while his life went to waste. No one was worth the gift of… — Leonard Gardner Copy Share Image
“The biggest potential for helping us overcome shame is this: We are “those people.” The truth is…we are the others. Most of… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
When you lie, I am your guilt. When you cheat, I am your conscience. When you deny, I am your truth. When… — Ian Willis Copy Share Image
Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“But what were you supposed to do with that weight? Once it was on you? Just be a man? Just suck it… — Blake Nelson Copy Share Image
“Admittedly, guilt can be my default setting. After a social gathering, I’m often left with a vague sense of wrongdoing that I… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Our great need is not ardour to save man but courage to face God - courage to face God with our soul… — Peter Forsyth Copy Share Image
“You know what my father said about innocent clients? ... He said the scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“With the child already shame-based, the feeling of discouragement takes over the whole personality. As the shame-based child forms her primitive conscience,… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“Was this, too, part of growing up? Was it facing the bad things you’d done as well as the good, and knowing… — Christina Henry Copy Share Image
Focus on guilt will always breed fear, and focus on innocence will always breed love. Any time we project guilt onto someone… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
It's special, grandparents and grandchldren. So much simpler. Is it always so, I wonder? I think perhaps it is. While one's child… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
What Stieg Larsson was up to - it was the Swedish guilt over World War II. All of our neighbors had the… — Michael Nyqvist Copy Share Image
When the Lord Jesus Christ became my surety . . . He went to Calvary's cross, and all my guilt was charged… — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
“What is guilt? People feel guilty when they think they have acted immorally or have hurt someone and worry that they may… — Avi Tuschman Copy Share Image
Inside Laila too a battle was being waged : guilt on one side, partnered with shame, and, on the other, the conviction… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
If you suspend the Geneva Conventions, give the green light to anything that will get intelligence, round up thousands all over the… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If this is something you'd truly like to work on, not out of a sense of guilt but because you would enjoy… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I love prayer is that it is an antidote to guilt and blame. If we are unhappy with… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Guilt is having committed an offence, crime, violation, or wrong, especially against moral or penal law; justly subject to a certain accusation… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father's remorse. Sometimes, I… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“When it comes to the crunch, coming out is the greatest of all confessions. Nothing is more difficult to acknowledge. When we… — Witi Ihimaera Copy Share Image
Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Your way of life is sinful and wrong," he said fiercely. Thus says a man who admits to worshipping a God who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is my assumption that growth in faith is the root of all spiritual growth and is prior to all disciplines of… — Richard Lovelace Copy Share Image
“Our need to be "greater than" or "less than" has been a defense against toxic shame. A shameful act was committed upon… — Maureen Brady Copy Share Image
There is seemingly no biological benefit to acting with conscience; if there were, only moral individuals would survive and procreate. Sadly, we… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
It would be impossible to calculate the psychic damage concepts of sin has inflicted on generations of children who might have grown… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earn'd; Or dealt by chance to shield a lucky knave, Or throw a cruel sunshine… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Toxically shamed people tend to become more and more stagnant as life goes on. They live in a guarded, secretive and defensive… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband's… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
One of the less attractive aspects of human nature is our tendency to hate the people we haven't treated very well; it's… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
...The men eyed her with the automatic mix of curiosity, lust, and aesthetic judgment they always gave young women, subject to object,… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
One thing was absolutely certain—it was a given for Kazuo. Although he might not have particularlyrealized it, or more appropriately, perhaps because… — Koushun Takami Copy Share Image
“There has been no single influence which has done more to prevent man from finding God and rebuilding his character, has done… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds… — Elizabeth Carter Copy Share Image
“According to Dr. Hartling, in order to deal with shame, some of us move away by withdrawing, hiding, silencing ourselves, and keeping… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Now since shame is a mental picture of disgrace, in which we shrink from the disgrace itself and not from its consequences,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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