“What an uncomfortable, terrible source of shame it is for the world that the victim is so often the one left with… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
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
If you do not leave this pasturage, Saladin will come and attack you here. And if you retreat from this attack the… — Gerard de Ridefort Copy Share Image
“What brought it to pass? What disaster took their reason away from men? What whip lashed them to their knees in shame… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
I don't have shame around where I've been or what I've done to survive to get to where I'm at in my… — Trace Lysette Copy Share Image
When I did 'Alice by Heart,' on one of the lifts, I farted a little bit and everyone heard it in the… — Molly Gordon Copy Share Image
Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think there ought to be a coat of arms for all of us who listen to Oberst's band Bright Eyes… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
“There is no shame in feeling broken. In seeking help. In searching for healing. Sometimes it is the breaking that leads us… — Jeanette LeBlanc 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
“Shamed and enraged, I sit by the side of the road and cry. Eclipsed by a sense of disgrace, my emotions feel… — Holly A. Smith Copy Share Image
Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Jamie - “Shame the Bruins got punished by the Ducks last month.” I see the flash of arrogance return at lightning speed.… — Sarina Bowen Copy Share Image
We all place ourselves at various levels, and we are constantly falling from these heights. It is the falls we are ashamed… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“And came to her a realization that the largest humiliation for the person was a lie. And the viler the one to… — Osyp Nazaruk Copy Share Image
“It was foul, and I loved it. I loved to perish. I loved my own — not that for which I erred,… — Saint Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
People have a lot of shame and suffering around it and I felt that the best thing I could do was to… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
That's the weird thing about not being married - you can't get regular kissing; you can't be guaranteed of it, and that's… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the… — Gerry Beckley Copy Share Image
At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I've had every kind of humiliation, from playing in Gala Bingo halls to doing a PA in a Glaswegian nightclub and having… — Sean Maguire Copy Share Image
“When a cat goes to the bathroom I look away in embarrassment; when a dog goes to the bathroom I look on… — Gregor Collins Copy Share Image
The failure to invest in our public transportation and public life, I think, is a scandal and a shame, and it should… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on. — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
If people aren't clear on what business you're in, what you're trying to accomplish, your values, your goals, then shame on you.… — Ken Blanchard Copy Share Image
“Ricky just listens. He isn't shocked. He isn't surprised. He listens to me because he knows. He knows the shame and the… — Emily Andrews Copy Share Image
The more real and genuine we are about ourselves, the more others will know that there is no shame in struggling, or… — Sanam Saeed Copy Share Image
If we want to live and love with our whole hearts, and if we want to engage with the world from a… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“In fact, the most paradoxical aspect of neurotic shame is that it is the core motivator of the superachieved and the underachieved,… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Christ's crucifixion was on a hill, by a road, where everybody who passed by could not only see his pain, but also… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's… — Jonathan Davis Copy Share Image
But until we get rid of that shame, then people are going to stay underground, they are not going to get tested,… — Elton John Copy Share Image
“May I take off clothes covering shame at the border, leaving them hanging on dry trees of arrogance, and run by wearing… — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now,… — Pamela Stephenson Copy Share Image
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image