"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."

Shame, Fear, Truth, Self-Worth

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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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"O shame! Where is they blush?"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you're under reproach, your behavior shows it."

Joyce Meyer, American Author

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"It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame."

Sherman Alexie, American Writer

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"It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA."

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian Poet

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"I'm dying from about ninety-nine kinds of shame."

Sherman Alexie, American Writer

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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?"

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"It's good to feel foolish sometimes, Fjerdan."You only say that because you have no shame."

Leigh Bardugo, Israeli Author

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

Benjamin Alire Saenz, American Poet

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"You can cry, ain't no shame in it."

Will Smith, American Actor

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"The shame that tormented me was all the more corrosive for having no very clear origin: I didn't know why I felt so tainted, and worthless, and wrong-only that I did, and whenever I looked up from my books I was swamped by slimy waters rushing in from all sides."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist

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"When we are willing to explore our own experiences, we open the doorway to deeper connection and intimacy."

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"You can see your thoughts and emotions arise & create space for them even if they are uncomfortable."

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"Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition."

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"Respecting differences while gaining insight into our essential connected-ness, we can free ourselves from the impulse to rigidly categorize the world in terms of narrow boundaries and labels."

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"We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we."

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"Grief helps us to relinquish the illusion that the past could be different from what it was."

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"Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what's happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what's happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self."

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"The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred."

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"Self-love is an unfolding process that gains strength over time, not a goal with a fixed end point."

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"Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can't be rushed or engineered."

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