Healing-shame Quote by J.S. Wolfe

“Sometimes, all you need is permission to feel. Sometimes, what causes the most pain is actually the attempt to resist feeling, or the shame…

— Olivia Laing

“Shame is like melting. You can actually feel your muscles sag and drop, as if your body is preparing you to crawl, or possibly…

— Maureen Johnson

“You have no reason to show shame. Sometimes our spirit weeps. When it does you must work at comforting it, and then healing it.”

— P.C. Cast

“It's not that I have no shame. Rather, I'm exhausted with shame, slippery all over with its sticky albumen taint. It is not an…

— Lionel Shriver

“I have learned that for me, shame is like kryptonite. It was utterly destructive, a boot on my neck for most of my life.…

— Laura Parrott Perry

“The pain was greater than the shame”

— Bea Turvey

“But we, when we put the thorns in our breasts, we know. We understand. And still we do it. Still we do it.”

— Colleen McCullough

“At the climax of failure, at the moment when shame is about to do us in, suddenly we are swept away by a frenzy…

— Emil Cioran

“The words that I will have to find for that explanation will be sharp and they will hurt, much worse than the thorns of…

— Antonia Michaelis

“The goal is to learn to recognize when we are experiencing shame quickly enough to prevent ourselves from lashing out at those around us.”

— Brené Brown

“There are only two ways the wicked and the thorns should be dealt with: crush them by your shoes or go away from them.”

— B.K. Chaturvedi

“It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns,”

— Stephen King