"This feeling of guilt is your conscience calling your attention to the higher road, and your heart wishing you had taken it."

Guilt, Regret, Truth, Wisdom, Power

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"This feeling of guilt is your conscience calling your attention to the higher road, and your heart wishing you had taken it."

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"The guilt applies only to those things that are being given away for free."

David Sedaris, American Writer

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"A pang of guilt, like a blaring siren, should never be ignored."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"It's great to be recognized when I'm looking for a table at a crowded restaurant, but I still don't put it to best use. I'm such a lump. I won't cut the line. It's my Catholic guilt. I gotta get used to it."

Christopher Meloni, American Actor

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"I had told him I was searching for my keys, that's what had taken me so long in the car, and I squeezed him tighter, as if I could crush my little lie."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"Perhaps it was as well that she had been unconscious for four weeks. She had missed the aftermath, the SO-1 reports, the recriminations, Snood and Tamworth's funerals. She missed everything...except the blame. It was waiting for her when she awoke..."

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

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"Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt."

Saint Augustine, Algerian Saint

Guilt, Tears, Saint Aurelius Augustine, Roman

"Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One."

Roger Mahony, American Clergyman

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"When a man admits guilt we have to believe him. We cannot set ourselves to proving to him that he is wrong. Otherwise the law courts would never function."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist

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"That I was sleeping at a time when my husband was dying is so horrible a thought, I can't confront it."

Joyce Carol Oates, American Novelist

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"What if dragons breathed bubbles and purred when they cuddled and giggled at chivalrous knights for their troubles?What if dragons felt soft, having scales made of cloth,and they moved rather slow like a brown-throated sloth?What if dragons were shyand did easily crywhen confronted by characters callous and sly?What if dragons did goodbut were misunderstoodso men mercilessly slew the beasts right where they stood?What if dragons aren't missedbecause there is no listof extinct types of quarry that now don't exist?"

Imagination

"It may not be fair that people make judgments so quickly, usually within a few seconds of observation, but it's unrealistic to expect that they won't. So, if you want to be judged in a certain manner, be sure that your look and demeanor give that impression."

Judgment

"Happiness doesn't always come in pink. Learn to appreciate the rainbow."

Appreciation

"I wish upon a glimmering star,My hopes as distant and as far. So if this wish does not come true,I'm thankful for the few that do."

Hope

"Your body and spirit, subconscious and conscious-every portion of you recognizes home. That is why on the moment of arrival, your entire being relaxes into a contented puddle of joy."

Home

"It isn't always true that a critical end justifies desperate means."

Morality

"Thanksgiving is not only being aware of the abundance of good in the world but embracing it."

Gratitude

"Vengeance is a monster of appetite, forever bloodthirsty and never filled."

Emotion

"For whatever reason, there are people we like and people we don't like. It's hard to say why, and often a difficult opinion to change. Luckily, there's no steadfast rule stating that we must like everyone. But to keep from disliking ourselves, we should develop the good character to treat everyone kindly whether or not we deem them deserving."

Kindness

"It's silly to think the left eye would envy the right or that one foot would be jealous of the other, and yet so often it is the case."

Unity