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

Will Smith, American Actor

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"Shame is a child of custom rather than of nature."

Will Durant, American Historian

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"I can see us, living in the woods, her wearing that A, me with a S maybe, S for silent, S for stupid, for scared. S for silly. For shame."

Laurie Halse Anderson, American Author

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"It's shame that gets us killed. Shame is the anchor, the heaviest burden to carry from the battlefield. Fortunately shame was an affliction I'd never suffered from."

Mark Lawrence, British Novelist

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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!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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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."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing."

Joni Mitchell, Canadian Musician

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"She had wanted me to hold rape inside me like a dark pearl, keep it in there, as it grew, as I grew cramped, as it overtook me as hidden things do. Secrets become lies. I'd carried in every step I took this lie, the shame of it."

Aspen Matis, American Author

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"Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame."

Marian McPartland, English Musician

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"Shame comes in different doses."

Carla H. Krueger, American Author

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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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