Now that he's gone, I feel like I'm a senior citizen who gave away her life savings over the phone. And this… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
We are all filled with a longing for the wild. There are few culturally sanctioned antidotes for this yearning. We were taught… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Guilt is feeling bad about what you have done; shame is feeling bad about who you are - all it is, is… — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
The One who lives outside of time invites you into a reality that is informed by His perfect plans to give you… — Steven Furtick Copy Share Image
“The phone rang and Chassie excused herself to answer it. Silence hung between them as heavy as snow clouds in a winter… — Liz Andrews Copy Share Image
She hugged me and I could feel the heat rise in my face, either from shame or love, like there was a… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“There was something fundamentally embarrassing about being a young woman...[the] embarrassment of wanting to be more assured, more substantive, more whole, of… — Michelle Orange Copy Share Image
It's a funny thing, but, as years go by, I think you appreciate more and more what a great thing it was… — Ted Williams Copy Share Image
As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she… — Livy Copy Share Image
The deeper purpose of a more positive attitude toward men is a better life for the children who are parented by the… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one... — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
He ["the male"] is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than apes, because… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented… — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don't like… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“I truly wish the power of his love could eclipse the overwhelming shame.” — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“This was the Big One. This was humiliation, disappointment, and dissolution all wrapped up together, tied with a big red bow of… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
“But with time I came to understand that seeing a rubbery as a humiliation and an affront is an exmotional luxury".” — Ryszard Kapuściński Copy Share Image
There's a tremendous sense of shame that people who are lonely feel. I say that as someone who felt ashamed of being… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
“It’s affirming that we can look at any experience from the fullness of our being and get past the shame we carry.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Happiness is not a choice, or we’d all be happy. Let’s stop putting unnecessary pressure on ourselves to be happy all the… — Scott Stabile Copy Share Image
How ironic for peacemaking efforts to discover that hatred is stronger for many than love; that the longing to achieve power through… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
I write a lot and I will have some originals on the record. I think it is a mistake for an artist… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
A refusal of shame about sexual assault and the prioritization of speaking your mind while using your real name - instead of… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
“Phaedra keeps saying she's being selfish. That she hates herself for it, but she does it anyway. She can't deny herself what… — Cora Carmack Copy Share Image
War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“I am not superior than anybody, don't say i am, else i won't defend you when you get caught.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
If guilt tells us that we've done something wrong, then shame tells us that we are something wrong. So many people feel… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“ Why had he done it? Why couldn't it just not have happened? Why didn't they have time-travel, why couldn't he go… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
There's a man upon that ledge, he's only cleaning windows. What a shame for the pain we're missing. Gonna lean back on… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“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
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