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  You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. You were created to be victorious.

  Joel Osteen

  Defeated, Ashamed, Stay Motivated

  Joel Osteen (2011). “Every Day a Friday: How to Be Happier 7 Days a Week”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Beauty, Mistake

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• A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Life, Failure

  "Le Siecle de Louis XIV (The Age of Louis XIV)". Book by Voltaire (Chapter VI), 1751.

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• Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Memorable, Mind

  'Henry VI, Part 3' (1592) act 5, sc. 6, l. 11

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• If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Mistake, Punishment, Guilt

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (2014). “Patanjali Yoga Sutras”, p.112, Arktos

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• Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.

  David Rockefeller

  Family, Believe, Evil Government

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.368, Random House

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• Whoever is the first to cry "Stop the thief" is the one who is guilty.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thieves, Firsts, Cry

  Source: russialist.org

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• He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.

  Seneca the Younger

  Guilt, Free Will, Not Guilty

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 345-46, Hercules Oetaeus, 886, 1922.

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• If 13 is unlucky, then 12 and 14 are guilty by association.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Association

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• It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Men, Risk

  Voltaire (1956). “Candide: and other writings”

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• Every guilty person is his own hangman.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Punishment, Guilt

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

  Veronica Roth

  Sad, Grief, Sorrow

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• Peace visits not the guilty mind.

  Juvenal

  Peace, Knowing Who You Are, Mind

  Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, William Gifford (1860). “The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius”, p.390

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• Today, let's set our minds and hearts on feeling more thankful for what we are than guilty for what we're not. Let's cut the threads of guilt with grace.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Thankful, Heart, Cutting

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from May 14, 2014

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• The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.

  Albert Ellis

  Law, Healthy, Guilt

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• Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Passion, People

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.

  Publilius Syrus

  Guilt, Innocent, Spares

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 113, 1856.

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• That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

  Garry Trudeau

  Character, Writing, Entertainment

  "Garry Trudeau: What a Long, Strange Strip It’s Been". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. January/february 2007.

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• Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Innocence, Ashamed

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.217, Basic Books

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• The guilty think all talk is of themselves.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Thinking, Guilt, Shame

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• One of the less attractive aspects of human nature is our tendency to hate the people we haven't treated very well; it's much easier than accepting guilt. If we can convince ourselves that the people we betrayed or enslaved were subhuman monsters in the first place, then our guilt isn't nearly so black as we secretly know that it is. Humans are very, very good at shifting blame and avoiding guilt.

  David Eddings

  Betrayal, Hate, Acceptance

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• I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.

  Jim Carrey

  Money, Too Much, My Family

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• You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.

  Wayne Dyer

  Self Improvement, Unhappy, May

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Nov 13, 2011

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• It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Guilt, President

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1853). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.399

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• Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Clothes, People, Feelings

  "Karl Lagerfeld, Global Aphorist" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. July 17, 2009.

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