Shame: We all have it. It's that gremlin that says 'I'm not enough.' Or, if you're feeling pretty confident,...'ooh, who do you… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Okay,” I said again, “so I won’t totally delete my accounts and attempt to melt into the earth and cut out a… — Jilly Gagnon Copy Share Image
Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life,… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“We picked our noses as children in front of people without shame. Now we just do it in secret as adults.” — Quinn Loftis Copy Share Image
Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter:… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend… — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame but for learning — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
“Recovering is a process of coming to experience a sense of self. More precisely, it is a process of learning to sense… — Sheila M. Reindl Copy Share Image
It's never my intention to upset anyone or humiliate or shame anyone. — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need… — Pericles Copy Share Image
It's a big shame, because 'Trixter' in my mind were what a real rock n' roll band is all about. — Steve Brown Copy Share Image
Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes… — Brene Brown Copy Share Image
What will you do when the Law of God comes in terror; when the trumpet of the archangel shall tear you from… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It's a real shame if people feel they have to do anything that makes them uncomfortable to be successful. — Keren Woodward Copy Share Image
Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“There is an important insight contained in the book of Genesis, concerning the loss of eros when the body takes over. Adam… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Every conflict we face in life is rich with positive and negative potential. It can be a source of inspiration, enlightenment, learning,… — Kenneth Cloke Copy Share Image
“Don't underestimate the power of a guilty mind. Never underestimate self-shame and self-destruction.” — Tim Hawken Copy Share Image
It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation, that it forgets the… — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
“I vowed that I would never tell anyone of my shame. They say that when you kept a secret, it eats you… — Jenni Rivera Copy Share Image
I think in its own small way, it did push people to be more accepting of different kinds of music. It definitely… — Jancee Dunn Copy Share Image
Time will come and some people will be proud of themselves that they have never believed in any religion! This honour will… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
When the Pleiadians speak of letting go, they transmit a letting go energy through our energetic field. As a human being, we've… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
It's all about communication and a dialogue between individuals - get rid of the labels, get rid of the shame, get rid… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
Do the Pentecostals look back with shame as they remember when they dwelt across the theological tracks, but with the glory of… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As long as woman regards the Bible as the charter of her rights, she will be the slave of man. The bible… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I was all braced for the wrath that was going to put grizzlies to shame, and this is what I get? I… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will,… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“at that moment experienced the painful internal feeling of that peculiar spedes of shame, which well-constructed minds feel when they see others… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“The terror of being judged sharpens the memory: it sends an inevitable glare over that long-unvisited past which has been habitually recalled… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253) — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Richard A. Posner is an extraordinary person. If he did not exist, it would be hard to believe that he could. (...)… — Alan Ryan Copy Share Image
