Love Quote by Sharon Salzberg

“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

“Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us pleasure, self-esteem,…

— Sharon Salzberg

“When shame is your own, it’s hard enough to bear. When other people are witness to it, it becomes intolerable.”

— Rachel Abbott

“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

“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

“Never miss an opportunity to be truly and deeply humiliated! The shame will carve you down to an individual of exquisite layering, and in…

— Ashim Shanker

“Shame is the fruit of my vanities, and remorse, and the clearest knowledge of how the world's delight is a brief dream.”

— Petrarch

“Most of us have these versions of ourselves that terrify us. We have these imperfect bodies we don't quite know how to cope with.…

— Roxane Gay

“We have these shames we keep to ourselves because to show ourselves as we are, no more and no less, would be too much.…

— Roxane Gay

“at that moment experienced the painful internal feeling of that peculiar spedes of shame, which well-constructed minds feel when they see others express a…

— Walter Scott

“When we are exposed without any way to protect ourselves, we feel the pain of shame. If we are continually overexposed, shame becomes toxic.”

— John Bradshaw

“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