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

"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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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

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

"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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"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."
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"I'm dying from about ninety-nine kinds of shame."
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"That's the trouble with anything which essentially has a lot of bits that are physically impossible: You're left, stuck, in the studio. And that's a shame. You're making a movie. You don't want it to stay put, you want it to be a movie - to move."
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"Are you living up to your potential? God made you with potential - potential for greatness! If you do what you can do, and trust Him to do what you can't, you will grow into the person He gave you the potential to be!"
Spiritual


"Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can't comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there's no life and love inside."
Life


"The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually."
Spiritual


"Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude."
Religion


"You can enjoy anything if you make up your mind to."
Motivational


"If you're fighting moodiness and depression you don't want to hang around a bunch of other moody and depressed people."
Emotion


"Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God."
Faith


"When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He's done... is doing... and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don't let yourself ever get used to it... stay amazed!"
Faith


"In my relationship with God, I've learned that if I follow a 'formula' for how I spend my time with Him, then I'm just accomplishing a checklist of things I feel obligated to do to please Him. This makes my spiritual life more about doing what I need to do to fulfill an obligation than something meaningful."
Faith


"The facts about our past are powerless against the blood of Jesus and the Truth of His Word."
Religion
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