“From the recovery experience of hundreds of thousands of people, we know that there is an effective way out of this constricting… — Charles L. Whitfield Copy Share Image
For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“Shame is the demon that keeps many of us trapped in our pain; healing comes when we gain the courage to confront… — J'son M. Lee Copy Share Image
Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“He took all of the humiliation, rejection, and punishment I could throw at him, and still he continued to park himself two… — Nicky Copy Share Image
“Those who were raised in poverty and have been successful to overcome the shame of it, understands the hardship of those who… — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for… — Isoroku Yamamoto Copy Share Image
What words can express her [the white woman’s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“Many of the habits of dysfunctional families use are not from the lack of love but are the result of fear. Knowing… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I come home that morning, after I been fired, and stood outside my house with my new work shoes on. The shoes… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
To ask for help does not make you weak. And that was something I felt after I was carjacked. I felt shame.… — Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters Copy Share Image
“To be free to roam our own consciousness and be responsible for ourselves, a letting go process is required. We have to… — David W Earle Copy Share Image
Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I feel no shame at being found still owning a share when the bottom of the market comes…I would go much further… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I wish we had a more open discourse. It's just a shame that with our 24-hour news media and the Internet, people… — Jim James Copy Share Image
I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Love, to her ear, was but a name, Combin'd with vanity and shame; Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were all Bounded… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“There is something more here than embarrassment at being praised. The strengths 'I' have are not admissible to the arena of ability… — Richard and Cobb Sennett Jonathan Copy Share Image
The shame that comes to us as we see ourselves praised when we are unworthy of it often gives us the occasion… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
I do choose to write for a living - in addition to writing plays. I no longer write sitcoms, and I no… — Lisa Loomer Copy Share Image
One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Only in recent history has "working hard" signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura . — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Forty seemed about right, and it occurred to me that it's too bad for a fella to die at forty, a real… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Soul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity. You are God's lover, yet you worry… — Rumi Copy Share Image
If my revelation of having bipolar II has encouraged one person to seek help, then it is worth it. There is no… — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image
There's something about taking emotional and career and relationship humiliations, writing them, acting them out again, but then redeeming them in some… — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
“You have no reason to show shame. Sometimes our spirit weeps. When it does you must work at comforting it, and then… — P.C. Cast Copy Share Image
Ronaldo is a disgrace to the game. His petulance, temperament, throwing himself on the ground. It was a disgrace to professional football.… — Eamon Dunphy Copy Share Image
“Empathy heals shame; sympathy exacerbates shame. We don't want people to feel sorry for us; we want people to be with us.” — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
No woman kills herself for love, and rarely for shame. It is the cruelty of hope that does a woman in; for… — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
We've got a nation of people who have one eye looking out for the next speed camera, another looking for a speed… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
“Reality may not be what you want it to be, but it is the reality you now must face. You can deny… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
The Cuban public is hugely cinephile. It's a shame that most of the movie theaters are so deteriorated. The sense of spectacle… — Fernando Perez Copy Share Image
People are obviously going to mention what I look like, but it's a shame it has to be a key part. I… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
I think it's a shame that people are so quick to put you in a box; sometimes it's as if you do… — Lewis Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Don't bother apologizing because we both know it would have gone on if you'd never gotten caught. It isn't shame, it's fear… — Shayne McClendon Copy Share Image
“We plunge into love with a naivete that ignores all prior humiliations. Thank goodness, I guess. Because we never learn, we reach… — Michael Perry Copy Share Image
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