Angel Quote by George Eliot

“word on shame: If there is any one thing that can hold us back, it is our own self-loathing. If we move through our…

— Jeff Brown

Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth…

— Socrates

We must not indulge our inclinations, as we do little children, till they grow weary of the thing they are unwilling to let go.…

— Henry Scougal

“Our healthy shame is essential as the foundation of our spirituality. By reminding us of our essential limitations, our healthy shame lets us know…

— John Bradshaw

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

— Henry David Thoreau

There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.

— Beth Ditto

So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always…

— Horace Mann

Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Who among us has any conception of the dimensions of shame that will befall us and our children when one day the veil has…

— Anonymous

There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and…

— Erich Fromm

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

— David Brooks