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"Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us pleasure, self-esteem, or a sense of our value."
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"Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us pleasure, self-esteem, or a sense of our value."
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"We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough."
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"I'm dying from about ninety-nine kinds of shame."
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"We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us ashamed of ourselves of our relatives of our incomes of our accents of our opinion of our experience just as we are ashamed of our naked skins."
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Personal Development
"It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame."
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Personal Development
"Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you're under reproach, your behavior shows it."
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"Shame control us and our lives, it makes the choices we just state in spec and watch what's doing... as far as now it goes like a bot... auto!"
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"I felt ashamed.""But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?""No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal.""But how could you help that?""Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?"
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"One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush."
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"She told me that women who wore makeup had bad values. Putting on makeup would have been a statement-a rebellion. I didn't try it. I grew to feel guilty for wanting to feel attractive."
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"A relationship is the union of two psychological systems."
Relationship
"Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart."
Work
"We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating."
Identity
"To celebrate someone else's life, we need to find a way to look at it straight on, not from above with judgment or from below with envy."
Life
"No connection is always easy or free of strife, no matter how many minutes a day we meditate. It's how we relate to conflict, as well as to our differing needs and expectations, that makes our relationships sustainable."
Relationship
"The notion of loving oneself has gotten an undeservedly bad rap, which goes something like this: self-love is narcissistic, selfish, self-indulgent, the supreme delusion of a runaway ego looking out for "number one. In fact, just the opposite is true."
Self
"Real love allows for failure and suffering."
Love
"We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones."
Mindset
"Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties, it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it."
Pain
"If we have nothing material to give, we can offer our attention, our energy, our appreciation. The world needs us. It doesn't deplete us to give."
Generosity
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