“word on shame: If there is any one thing that can hold us back, it is our own self-loathing. If we move… — Jeff Brown Copy Share Image
“Under these circumstances, silence among such a large group of people is an uncomfortable thing to experience. Guilt spreads around even to… — Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
“Practice courage and reach out! We have to own our story and share it with someone who has earned the right to… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
McConnell is the most talented majority leader in a generation. He has complete control of his caucus and understands and exploits their… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
I remember when I was still in the church, I wanted so badly to be normal, and that was the only thing… — Sophie Thatcher Copy Share Image
Jews who have been guilty of exploiting the black people in America, economically, civically, and otherwise, hide behind - hide their guilt… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Every time we focus on someone else's darkness, we are blocking our own view of the light. We think the person we… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
"Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later." "You will do it now, young man. I don't… — Lewis Grizzard Copy Share Image
I can't say anything other than the fact that I feel a range of emotions including guilt, shame, sadness, betrayal, freedom and… — Jayson Blair Copy Share Image
“This, the guilt, will be the hardest part for Galen. He already takes responsibility for so much that isn’t his fault. He… — Anna Banks Copy Share Image
As you become an adult, shame gets introduced and reintroduced constantly to you. So where something that, to a child, just is… — Justin Torres Copy Share Image
Shame is the proper reaction when one has purposefully violated the accepted behavior of society. Inflicting it is etiquette's response when its… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“In an antique city-state, or a modern municipality, shame is the penalty for the violation of ethics—making things more symmetric. Banishment and… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Drop guilt! - because to be guilty is to live in hell. Not being guilty, you will have the freshness of dewdrops… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Your so-called religions have made you very tense. Because they have created guilt in you. My effort here is to help you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“It was the senior stew's position to be at the top of the ramp when the men got off in Vietnam. But… — Christian G. Appy Copy Share Image
No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt : fancy… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Guilt nagged at me. She didn't technically ask me a question, so in theory, I didn't owe her a response, but the… — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
As long as our restlessness, anxiety, and feelings of guilt dominate our work as peacemakers we cannot last long. But when we… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
There is no life without guilt anyway, at least in the Western world. I think in other civilizations it might be different… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater,… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
There aren't a lot of alternative roles for Indian actors. I think we've fallen short of portraying Indians in the media. We… — Chris Eyre Copy Share Image
When the Holy Spirit comes to live within you, He will come with the ability to produce righteousness. Righteousness is the nature… — Chris Oyakhilome Copy Share Image
Take events logically one by one; ask yourself what is your dharma pertaining to a given event; and do it; and move… — T Joseph Benziger Copy Share Image
Generosity helps us make a concerted effort to keep the needs of others in the forefront of our thinking. Rich people should… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
The Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Despite their differences, pride, shame, and guilt all activate similar neural circuits, including the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, amygdala, insula, and the nucleus… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
I have Type-1 diabetes, so Team 1 Diabetes is one thing I've been a part of for a while, empowering kids who… — RaeLynn Copy Share Image
Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt. Sure, we all feel it. But we also… — Kris Carr Copy Share Image
If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Reality cannot be photographed or represented. We can only create a new reality. And my dilemma is how to make art out… — Alfredo Jaar Copy Share Image
“A weight sits on my chest, bending it in. Crushing guilt. “It’s not fair.” “Life often isn’t,” Nicholas says gently. “Logan had… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
“I’d been so used to the court system and thinking of myself as a criminal. I’d been so used to pleading in… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“Guilt was a thief. It would steal your mind, mess with your priorities and would eventually steer you from your original plan.… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate… — Ted Solotaroff Copy Share Image
Christianity cannot erase man's need for pleasure, nor can it eradicate the various sources of pleasure. What it can do, however, and… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents'… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
