I remember being a teenager and being ashamed of my musical tastes, at least some of them. My Brian Wilson and Beach Boys fandom, which is as important to me as anything else, was almost...

Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through.

You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.

I know how soon youth would fade and bloom perish, if, in the cup of bliss offered, but one dreg of shame, or one flavour of remorse were detected; and I do not want sacrifice,...

Phaedra keeps saying she’s being selfish. That she hates herself for it, but she does it anyway. She can’t deny herself what she wants, even if it brings about her downfall and his.” “And have...

I made a mistake.

I felt like I needed to comfort both the little girl inside me and my mother, assuring them that neither of them could have prevented the rape. I didn’t want my mother to blame herself...

But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.

The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of the universe.

It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool

I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I’m not even brave enough for that

Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center of things. It will have blades for lips and will not stop until...

There are so many other fun ways to dishonor the family name that buying girls’ underwear shouldn’t be one of them.

Why, Andrew, why would it irritate me? Do you think that being loved by you is something to be ashamed of? I don’t.

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitous man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of hers, may be visited by cold and sordid people upon...

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can’t see when you’re unashamedly looking down on someone.

I do believe that when a man confesses to his neighbor and says he’s sorry, he thinks more of him than he did before. You see, we all know we have done wrong, but we...

DID is about survival! As more people begin to appreciate this concept, individuals with DID will start to feel less as though they have to hide in shame. DID develops as a response to extreme...

To be shame-bound means that whenever you feel any feeling, need or drive, you immediately feel ashamed. The dynamic core of your human life is grounded in your feelings, needs and drives. When these are...

There she stood, hiding; the mother without child, the voiceless woman full of anger. Her smoked nails hammered her evaporated heart snivelling in the grotty kitchen of disaster. Her face, depleted, cauterised. Her eyes wheezed...

I am not superior than anybody, don’t say i am, else i won’t defend you when you get caught.

We are so used to our own history, we do not see it as remarkable or out of the ordinary, whereas others might see it as horrendous. Further, we tend to minimize that which we...

I am protective of the gentle slope of stomach bulging like an early pregnancy, at my waist. I’ve earned its existence with everything I’ve been forced to swallow.

Don’t underestimate the power of a guilty mind. Never underestimate self-shame and self-destruction.

WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences of guilt, shame, and doubt?

The pain of humanity’s most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance.

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.

Men are my bread and butter. It’s what I live for! I have no shame about that.

Humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

Many people look at their past and bemoan their mistakes. Those errors in judgment, behavior, hurting others, and the wrong decisions may be what consumes them now. It does not have to be that way,...

I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.

Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it’s source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.

I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can’t see.

If shame had a face, I think it would kind of looked like mine… If it had a home, would it be my eyes?

A bulimic person’s shame may lead her to try to hide not only her eating-disorder behaviors but also her basic needs and yearnings. She may wish that her needs and desires did not exist and...

These secrets are not secrets per se but are truths hidden from public view. I had to write this book. There had to be a reason I survived to tell this story.

Ma souffrance est ma vengeance contre moi-même.

In the grand scheme of life, nobody grows old keeping their soul unblemished.

When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or...

When you’re hounded by the shame of the past, you can turn into a pretty miserable person who is always trying to measure up and please others.

Guilt addresses an external action while shame attacks the internal character!” EL

This woman’s size protected herfrom the hurts of the worldbut it also imprisoned her soul. As the merry-go-round revolved, she ate another French fry,as a silent scream frozen on her face.

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 of a daughter and supernaturally break all the darkness, shame,...

… for when a man’s spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones.

Justin Timberlake puts you to shame, having that much talent.

Don’t shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.

Our inner experience is that which we think, feel, remember, perceive, sense, decide, plan and predict. These experiences are actually mental actions, or mental activity (Van der Hart et al., 2006). Mental activity, in which...

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,...

It is not lies or a lack of loyalty that ends a relationship. It is the agonizing truth that one person feels in their heart on a daily basis. It is realizing that you are...