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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."

"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."

"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?"

"Most of the groups I worked with 30 years ago are either dead or dead broke. And it's a shame."

"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."
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"The struggle is never easy to finding what is lost and to gain the best of what is to come without sweat."

"Trust yourself and try not to get lured off course by conflicting opinions that don't seem to sit right with you."

"The leaderly response to personal irritation is to relax and open up not push, run, or close down."

"In every city you go, you will come across men of different kinds and you are the one to choose where your to belong."
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