Shame proverbs
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- Charles Dickens99◆ It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.
- Stephen Fry99◆ Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.
- Isaac Asimov99◆ If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.
- Nikos Kazantzakis99◆ Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.
- Brené Brown99◆ Shame is a soul eating emotion.
- C.G. Jung99◆ If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.
- Brené Brown99◆ Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
- Charles Dickens99◆ I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.
- Kathryn Lasky99◆ You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
- Alice Munro99◆ I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
- Jonathan Swift99◆ Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame.
- Brené Brown99◆ Shame isn't a quiet grey cloud, shame is a drowning man who claws his way on top of you, scratching and tearing your skin, pushing you under the surface.
- Kirsty Eagar99◆ Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.
- Brené Brown99◆ Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.
- Katherine Paterson99
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