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

Shame, Self-Awareness, Emotion, Growth

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

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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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"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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"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."

Sharon Salzberg, American Author

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"Shame comes in different doses."

Carla H. Krueger, American Author

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"One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush."

Marquis de Sade, French Novelist

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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

Shame, Mortality, Appearance, Humanity

"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."

Aspen Matis, American Author

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

Joni Mitchell, Canadian Musician

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

Ronnie Spector, American Musician

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"Maybe it wasn't a good idea to rank the people in your life. That's not how the heart worked. The heart didn't make lists."

Equality

"I always thought of men as being hard-maybe because I was hard. But there was a softness in Tom that betrayed his large masculine hands and his deep baritone voice. He knew something about love that I didn't. I don't know where he'd learned it, but it wasn't something you got from a book, not something you could learn in an online class, not something you could borrow. Maybe it was something you were born with. Some people knew how to love and some people didn't. Tom was the former. I was the latter. I didn't know which one of us had it worse."

Sensitivity

"Feeling sorry for myself was an art."

Self-Pity

"I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life."

Talent

"I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us."

Distance

"Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe."

Nostalgia

"Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder."

Pain

"Grief was a terrible and beautiful thing."

Grief

"Adam says I isolate. He is addicted to telling me that I spend too much time in my head. It's an unhealthy behavior. Look, I don't see how not bothering other people with your screwed-up vision of the world constitutes unhealthy behavior."

Isolation

"Someday, I'm going to have to break some of your rules, Mom.'I know,' she said. 'Try to do it behind my back, will you? You can bet on that, Mom. We both sat there and laughed."

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