Shame Quotes - Page 37

• Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on.

  Geneen Roth

  Awareness, Deprivation, Rely

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Before the whole world, I accuse you, German intellectuals, you non-Nazis, as those truly guilty of all these Nazi crimes, all this lamentable breakdown of a great people - a destruction which shames the whole white race.

  Bronislaw Huberman

  Race, White, People

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• God can take what Satan meant for shame and use it for His glory. Just when we think we've messed up so badly that our lives are nothing but heaps of ashes, God pours His living water over us and mixes the ashes into clay. He then takes this clay and molds it into a vessel of beauty. After He fills us with His overflowing love, He can use us to pour His love into the hurting lives of others.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Hurt, Thinking, Water

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• Sip the shame so you won't have to guzzle the regret.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Regret

  Lysa TerKeurst (2012). “Unglued Devotional: 60 Days of Imperfect Progress”, p.32, Thomas Nelson

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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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• That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.

  M. L. Stedman

  Silence, Goes On, Protected

  M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once were.

  Greg McKeown

  Mistake, Admitting, Should

  "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less". Book by Greg McKeown, April 15, 2014.

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• When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent current of low-level shame, you move forward by using the creative possibilities of this moment, your current situation.

  Epictetus

  Moving Forward, Creative, Feelings

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• The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.

  J. Irwin Miller

  Aggravation, Cynical, Manners

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• How dare you refer to my beautiful children as 'synthetic'. And shame on you for wagging your judgemental little fingers at IVF - a miracle that has allowed legions of loving people, both straight and gay, to fulfill their dream of having children, your archaic thinking is out of step with the times, just like your fashions. I shall never wear Dolce and Gabbana ever again.

  Elton John

  Beautiful, Dream, Fashion

  @eltonjohn, www.instagram.com. March 15, 2015.

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• The revolt against one's environment is usually 'shame' of one's environment.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Environment, Revolt

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• Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

  Mark Twain

  Regret, Hero, Men

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.254, Courier Corporation

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• Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.

  John F. Kennedy

  Reality, Violence, Wells

  Civil Rights Address, delivered 11 June 1963

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• I didn't fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.

  Byron Katie

  Fighting, Thinking, Mind

  Twitter post from Mar 08, 2011

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• Now it's virtually impossible to write a game that successfully provides challenge and frustration, and that's a shame. We are going to lose something that makes scientists, that makes doers, that makes hard-minded, witty, clever people, and I worry that those people aren't being made these days.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Witty, Clever, Writing

  "Best-Selling Author Warns ‘You Might Not Want to Buy’ His Book". www.wired.com. October 25, 2014.

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• I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off.

  Charles Bukowski

  Race, Add, Want

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, p.48, City Lights Books

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• The perfect tools aren't going to help us if we can't face each other and give and receive fearlessly, but more important, to ask without shame.

  Amanda Palmer

  Giving, Perfect, Important

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• By the way, two wars are in an endless state of sorrow. Egypt about burned to the ground and all you people care about is my bullshit... Pathetic. Shame, shame shame

  Charlie Sheen

  War, Egypt, Two

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• The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

  John Owen

  World, Compromise, Sin

  John Owen (1862). “The Works of John Owen”, p.343

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• Therefore, the truly great man, although he does not injure others, does not credit himself with charity and mercy (these are natural to him). He does not seek gain, but does not despise his followers who do. He struggles not for wealth, but does not take credit for leaving it alone... The ranks and emoluments of the world are to him no cause for joy, it's punishments and shame no cause for disgrace.

  Zhuangzi

  Struggle, Men, Joy

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• The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Too Much, Certain, Defiance

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• Retain your shyness and drop your shame.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Shyness

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• The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves but the imagined effect of this reflection upon another's mind.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Moving, Pride, Reflection

  Charles Horton Cooley, Hans-Joachim Schubert (1998). “On Self and Social Organization”, p.22, University of Chicago Press

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• I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him.

  Lloyd Banks

  Grandfather, Able, My Grandfather

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• Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn’t mean time heals. Time cures a secret in its brine, keeping it and finally, paradoxically, destroying it. Nothing is left in that salt solution but the pain or rage, the biting shame that lodged it there. Even they are diluted or denied.

  Patricia Hampl

  Pain, Mean, Secret

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