Amount Quote by Brené Brown

If you put shame in a Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence and judgment.

— Suman Rai

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay…

— Brené Brown

Shame is a soul eating emotion.

— Anonymous

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.

— Brené Brown

“A pervasive sense of shame is the ongoing premise that one is fundamentally bad, inadequate, defective, unworthy, or not fully valid as a human…

— Merle Fossum

We all have unresolved shame, because it is used as a tool to control behavior.

— Christiane Northrup

“Wherever the responsibility lies, shame creates a solid and terrible feeling of unworthiness that resides in our bodies: the storehouse of the memories of…

— Sharon Salzberg

Anyone can be shamed, but feeling guilt requires empathy within.

— George Saunders

“Healthy shame is the psychological foundation of humility. It is the source of spirituality. What I discovered was that shame as a healthy human…

— John Bradshaw

“Shame is the deepest of the “negative emotions,” a feeling we will do almost anything to avoid. Unfortunately, our abiding fear of shame impairs…

— Gabor Maté

“And if we all have shame, the good news is that we’re all capable of developing shame resilience. Shame resilience is the ability to…

— Brené Brown

Shame doesn't exist in the animal kingdom. It's a human conception.

— Justin Torres