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There is no shame in not knowing your history, the shame lies in not finding out.

—Habeeb Akande

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At the top of the page I wrote my full name […] At the sight of it, many thoughts rushed through me, but I could write down only this: “I wish I could love someone...

—Jamaica Kincaid

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Tell the truth and shame the devil.

—François Rabelais

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People generally don’t suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who’ve endured the depraved world of combat experience their own symptoms. Trauma is an expulsive...

—David Brooks

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[She] had heard it said that there was only one emotion which, in recollection, was capable of resurrecting the full immediacy and power of the original—one emotion that time could never fade, and that would...

—Laini Taylor

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It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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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. If a woman calls a man to her...

—Nikos Kazantzakis

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Changes in the Perception of Self:People who have been traumatized in childhood are often troubled by guilt, shame, and negative feelings about themselves, such as the belief they are unlikable, unlovable, stupid, inept, dirty, worthless,...

—Suzette Boon

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God puzzled her and she was too ashamed of Him to say so.

—Toni Morrison

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Shame is a destroyer of self-worth.

—Shannon Tanner

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You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

—Alice Munro

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Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more...

—Charles Dickens

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How can the intensity of this shame be understood by those who have never experienced it? How can they understand the strength of the motivations produced by the desire to escape from it?

—Didier Eribon

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Like all men who look this good, Frank has no interest in women.

—Dennis Sharpe

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Reality may not be what you want it to be, but it is the reality you now must face. You can deny this reality and try to wish it away, or you can accept it...

—David W. Earle

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It ended by my almost believing (perhaps actually believing) that this was perhaps my normal condition. But at first, in the beginning, what agonies I endured in that struggle! I did not believe it was...

—Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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To show his nervousness was not shameful; only to admit it.

—Ernest Hemingway

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. . . have not some religions, including the most influential forms of Christianity, taught that the heart of man is totally corrupt? How could the course of religion in its entire sweep not be...

—John Dewey

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From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

—John Updike

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Non mi piacciono i matrimoni combinati. Ci sono sbagli dei quali non bisognerebbe mai poter incolpare i propri poveri genitori.

—Salman Rushdie

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[I]f the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or, if thou be not ashamed, concubine … And thou thyself wert not wholly unmindful of...

—the narrative

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It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed.

—Philip José

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This is my real bed-rock objection to the eastern systems. They decry all manly virtue as dangerous and wicked, and they look upon Nature as evil. True enough, everything is evil relatively to Adonai; for...

—Aleister Crowley

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There is a quiet transformation happening that is moving us from ‘turning on each other’ to ‘turning toward each other.’ Without question, that transformation will require shame resilience. If we’re willing to dare greatly and...

—Brené Brown

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Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.

—Craig Thompson

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[A]s though mindful of the wife of Lot, who looked back from behind him, thou deliveredst me first to the sacred garments and monastic profession before thou gavest thyself to God. And for that in...

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You did not invent these family habits. Your family is like mine, for thousands and thousands of years our families have embraced a dysfunctional lifestyle, passing these habits as gospel on to subsequent generations. This...

—David W. Earle

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Pepperonis are like edible polkadots. I made you a pizza dress, but I’m ashamed to admit I burned it. I’m afraid you’ll have to dance naked.

—Jarod Kintz

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I wear a taint of rationing, that’s all. I have the thready, ashamed look of a reduced person who assumes there is a worse reduction to come.

—Morag Joss

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I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.

—Jodi Picoult

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I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

—John Fowles

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Mae’s first impulse was to die of shame, but she realized after a hot, stomach-clenching moment that this was probably impractical.

—Sarah Rees

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I think I just said it, but I think it’s worth repeating. They gave me hope that there is good in the world out there. There really is. It really does exist. Regardless of how...

—Robert Uttaro

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It is not depression or anxiety that truly hurts us. It is our active resistance against these states of mind and body. If you wake up with low energy, hopeless thoughts, and a lack of...

—Vironika Tugaleva

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Gain fame, and the paparazzi or media waits and watches for them to slip, just to shame their name.

—Anthony Liccione

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I was ashamed of myself for being ashamed of myself. I didn’t like feeling like that.

—Benjamin Alire Saenz

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Deep rooted envy is the main cause why people put you down, blame, shame, misjudge, maltreat and malign you; abusing your goodness and generosity.” from the book, Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul

—Angelica Hopes

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So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen...

—Ellen Bass

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Don’t know. It’s never happened.

—Devon Monk

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A blanket could be used to hide my shame and cover my insecurities. But so could a camouflaged condom.

—Jarod Kintz

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Many veterans feel guilty because they lived while others died. Some feel ashamed because they didn’t bring all their men home and wonder what they could have done differently to save them. When they get...

—David Brooks

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(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.)(You are wrong. Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you...

—Jonathan Safran

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It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governing part), but rather it is our own judgments. Therefore remove those judgments and resolve to let go...

—Marcus Aurelius

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This murdered girl troubles me. After the first shock, nobody at school says much about her. Even Cordelia does not want to talk about her. It’s as if this girl has done something shameful, herself,...

—Margaret Atwood

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As a society, our decision to heap shame and contempt upon those who struggle and fail in a system designed to keep them locked up and locked out says far more about ourselves than it...

—Michelle Alexander

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I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It’s a shame.

—Thom Yorke

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It was a crying shame!

—Ru Freeman

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