Quotes about Shame

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We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor t — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's n — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Abuse manipulates and twists a child’s natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked an — Laura Davis, Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Is a Survivor of Child Sexual Abuse
Soul, if you want to learn secrets,
your heart must forget about shame
 and dignity. You are God's lover,
yet you worry — Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi
I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that — Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train
The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying a — J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy
It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—th — Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
Naive people tend to generalize people as—-good, bad, kind, or evil based on their actions. However, even the smartest p — Shannon L. Alder
A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed. — Mencius
We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not — Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is i — Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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. — Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.)(You are wron — Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
But no matter how much evil I see, I think it’s important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than — Robert Uttaro, To the Survivors: One Man's Journey as a Rape Crisis Counselor with True Stories of Sexual Violence
Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversit — Criss Jami, Killosophy
Do I have YOUR permission to be a Supernatural God? If I want to open heaven, and in a moment in time, touch the heart o — Jim Anderson, Unmasked: Exposing the Cultural Sexual Assault
What God says is best, indeed is best, though all men in the world are against it. Seeing, then, that God prefers his re — John Bunyan
yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful thingsand your tongue were not concocting some evil to sayshame would not — Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience. — Criss Jami, Killosophy
Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit i — Craig D. Lounsbrough