Guilt Quotes - Page 22

• Every day I get better at knowing that it is not a choice to be an activist; rather, it is the only way to hold on to the better parts of my human self. It is the only way I can live and laugh without guilt.

  Staceyann Chin

  Life, Laughter, Self

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• White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially and financially rewarded. When you learn to say and perhaps even believe the right things about race, doors are opened for you. When you say the wrong thing, those doors slam shut. Then, the gossips and church ladies will shame you publicly, demand that you be fired from your job, and use every avenue available to them to coerce a confession, a public apology and a staged conversion that contributes to their progressive narrative.

  Jack Donovan

  Jobs, Believe, Apology

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• Anger is remembered pain, fear is anticipated pain, guilt is self directed pain, depression is depletion of energy. Cure-return to love& joy

  Deepak Chopra

  Pain, Self, Joy

  Twitter post from Jun 22, 2011

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• Jesus Christ does not save the worthy, but the unworthy. Your plea must not be righteousness but guilt

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

  Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publication,inc (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 82”, p.385, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want virtue but without particular moral justifications that invariably offend; we want good without having to name evil; we want decency without the authority to insist upon it; we want more community without any limitations to personal freedom. In short, we want what we cannot possibly have on the terms that we want it.

  James Davison Hunter

  Strong, Character, Emotional

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• The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about.

  Andy Behrman

  Broken, Six, Mental Illness

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• Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.

  Dave Grohl

  Wall, Cancer, Artist

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• The sense of anxiety and guilt doesn't come from having too much to do; it's the automatic result of breaking agreements with yourself.

  David Allen

  Agreement, Anxiety, Too Much

  David Allen (2015). “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity”, p.229, Penguin

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• In brainwashing and the eliciting of confessions, the physiological importance of inducing a sense of guilt and conflict can hardly be over emphasized.

  William Sargant

  Conflict, Confession, Importance

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• It’s scary to realize that the only thing holding our friends to us isn’t our performance, or our lovability, or their guilt, or their obligation. The only thing that will keep them calling, spending time with us, and putting up with us is love. And that’s the one thing we can’t control.

  Henry Cloud

  Scary, Calling, Realizing

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• You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your mind. What do you need to let go of? Take a deep breath, relax, and say to yourself, 'I am willing to let go. I release. I let go. I release all tension. I release all fear. I release all anger. I release all guilt. I release all sadness. I let go of all old limitations. I let go, and I am at peace. I am at peace with myself. I am at peace with the process of life. I am safe.'

  Louise Hay

  Letting Go, Sadness, Mind

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Jul 22, 2015

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• Oftentimes in a society when people of a certain type, whether individual or a group, are subconsciously portrayed by the media as abnormal, they also slowly, subconsciously become enemies of that society due to feelings of cultural guilt. Ultimately by this the inflated media is an enemy of its very own cause.

  Criss Jami

  Media, People, Feelings

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.79, Criss Jami

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• He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.

  George R. R. Martin

  Doubt, Half

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.2315, Bantam

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• There is unspeakable joy... for the person who knows release from guilt and the relief of forgiveness.

  Stuart Briscoe

  Christian, Joy, Relief

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• Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pregnancy, Pride, Sacred

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• We were going to have an all-day drinking binge. Gonna ride our bikes, hang out... do naughty things. But I started feeling this overwhelming guilt.

  Jessica Simpson

  Pregnancy, Drinking, Naughty

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• When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.

  Bernie Siegel

  Happiness, Moving, Past

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• A lot of foreign people say, when asking about eating habits, 'What is your guilty pleasure?' I have no guilt. Whatever I do, I enjoy and it's the point. I think if you start to feel guilty about it, that's a problem. So, no guilty pleasures. I have pleasure and no guilt at all.

  Eric Ripert

  Thinking, People, Asking

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• I've always hated religion. It's the most guilt-ridden, horrible thing. 'My God is better than yours, and I'm going to fight you and kill you because of your religion.' I think it's just a sick idea. You know how people are color-blind when it comes to other people - I mean, hopefully they are. Well, I'm religious-blind.

  Linda McCartney

  God, Religious, Mean

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• Pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away! I need my pain!

  William Shatner

  Pain, Taken, Cynical

  "Fictional character: James T. Kirk". "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier", 1989.

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• The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt, and fear of their masters.

  Kenneth Clark

  Educational, Ghetto, Dark

  Kenneth B. Clark (1989). “Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power”, p.11, Wesleyan University Press

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• In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.

  Sophocles

  Darkness, Doe, May

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• Living day in and day out with guilt over sin that has not been properly confessed and forsaken expends a certain amount of emotional energy; it saps your emotional strength and causes you to become emotionally exhausted (i.e., depressed).

  Lou Priolo

  Depression, Emotional, Energy

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• Grace gives us the power to live, and mercy keeps us free from guilt, condemnation, and shame.

  John Bevere

  Giving, Grace, Shame

  Twitter post from Jan 01, 2015

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• If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Depressing, Disappointment, Feelings

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