S Quotes
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“Shame keeps worthiness away by convincing us that owning our stories will lead to people thinking less of us. Shame is all about fear. We’re afraid that people won’t like us if they know the truth about who we are, where we come from, what we believe, how much we’re struggling”
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection
“Shame lies. All the time. About everything.
Don’t believe your shame.”
“Shame lurks most often in the thoughts that silently condemn, while entitlement patriotically camouflages itself behind our “God-given rights.” Yet whether you flip the coin to the side of shame or to entitlement, both play the game by endorsing a broken view of humanity and worth. Shame and entitlement both owe their survival to a hierarchical view of the world.”
“Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release.”
Source: Yes Please
“Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.”
“Shame must be accepted to be effective.”
“Shame must change sides.”
Source: A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides
“Shame occurs when you haven't been able to get away with the 'who' you want people to think you are.”
“Shame often causes me to hide my mistakes from others. But really, when I make a mistake, I should make it loud and clear, so I can see that it didn’t work as a strategy, and be able to make a course correction, either by myself or with the help of others.”
Source: ChangeAbility: How artists activists and awakeners navigate change
“Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.”
“Shame on me. Shame on me… It was excluding me from the Society by saying you. By saying yourself. And I could feel it. Every letter clung to my heart like a disease, and I couldn’t tell if I was going insane or if I was seeing things for the first time.”
Source: Sameness
“Shame on me, for me to have this platform and me to have this opportunity to stand up for something that I thought was unjust, and I passed on it. I can't do that.”
“Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!”
“Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.”
“Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.”
“Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!”
Source: The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1773-1777: 1773-1777
“Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Shame on the shepherd who runs and hides when wolves are coming to harm his flock.”
Source: The Armada Legacy
“Shame on those artists who aren't proud of their achievements.”
“Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.”
Source: Tragedy of Alzira with the Life of the Author and a Critique by Richard Cumberland
“Shame on us if 100 years from now our grandchildren are living on a planet that has been irreparably damaged by Global Warming, and they ask, 'How could those who came before us, who saw this coming, have let this happen?'”
“Shame on you Argives, we are now utterly undone, unless we can save ourselves by driving the enemy from our ships. Do you think, if Hector takes them, that you will be able to get home by land? Can you not hear him cheering on his whole host to fire our fleet, and bidding them remember that they are not at a dance but in battle?”
“Shame on you. Don't tell me you've been married for an hour and you've already got eyes for another woman.”
“Shame on you for staying the same.”
“Shame on you if you ever get dumped out of boredom. Because you are so freakin’ fearfully and wonderfully and SEDUCTIVELY made.”
“Shame on you, Crispin. Married how long, and you haven't spanked your wife with a metal spatula yet?" I'd gotten used to Ian's assumption that everyone was as perverted as he was, so I didn't miss a beat. "We prefer blender beaters for our kitchen utensil kink," I said with a straight face. Bones hid his smile behind his hand, but Ian looked intrigued. "I haven't tried that ... oh, you're lying, aren't you?" "Ya think?" I asked with a snort. Ian gave a sigh of exaggerated patience and glanced at Bones. "Being related to her through you is a real trial.”
“Shame plays a huge part in why you hate who you are. For me, a girl surrounded by sexual abuse, and being a girl filled with shame, was no fun. It looked like a boy had things much better, and better is what I wanted. I went to sleep dreaming and wishing when I woke up I would be a boy.”
Source: Who Am I? Dissociative Identity Disorder Survivor
“Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.”
“Shame serves to fuel and feed relapse. Further relapse fuels and feeds shame.”
Source: Breaking Through Betrayal: And Recovering the Peace Within, 2nd Edition
“shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us”
Source: Truth and Beauty: A Friendship
“Shame Sucker!
You suck my joy away!
You suck my fun away!
You suck my happiness away!
Shame, you suck!”
“Shame tells you when you've gone too far. Then you try if it's okay to go too far. And it might be so that shame was right. You can never, never know that.”
“shame the bad
comfort the good
do the rosa parks
just like she would”
Source: Acolytes
“Shame usually follows a pattern—a cycle of self-recrimination and lies that claims life after life. First, we experience an intensely painful event. Second, we believe the lie that our pain and failure is who we are—not just something we’ve done, or had done to us—and we experience shame. And finally, our feelings of shame trap us into thinking that we can never recover—that, in fact, we don’t even deserve to.”
Source: The Christian Atheist: Believing in God But Living as If He Doesn't Exist
“Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.”
“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.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“Shame weighs a lot more than flesh and bone.”
Source: Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
“Shame whispers lies about your worth.”
“Shame without repentance doesn’t lose power when it is spoken, it only seeks approval.”
“Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.(page 68)”
“Shame, I do believe, is the most powerful emotion known to man; most discoveries and journeys of importance have been accomplished because of the ignominy that would be the result if the attempt was abandoned.”
Source: An Instance of the Fingerpost
“Shame, isn’t it? That we only like our heroes out in the street when they are looking their best and their uniforms are ‘spit and polished,’ and not when they’re showing us the wounds they suffered on our behalf.”
Source: Maisie Dobbs
“Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors.”
“Shame--what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.”
Source: All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir
“Shame: We all have it. It's that gremlin that says 'I'm not enough.' Or, if you're feeling pretty confident,...'ooh, who do you think you are?' Shame always has a seat.”
“Shamed and enraged, I sit by the side of the road and cry.
Eclipsed by a sense of disgrace, my emotions feel momentarily stifled and disconnected. Instead of anger, I feel dishonored and exposed. I cannot even formulate my thoughts, much less speak them. My integrity and humility have been violated. I have only my own indignation to spur me on.”
Source: Fire of the Five Hearts
“Shameful confession, one of my own Chelas (or so it is rather incredibly reported to me) said recently: "Self-discipline is a form of Restriction." (That, you remember, is "The word of Sin.") Of all the utter rubbish! (Anyhow, he was a "centre of pestilence" for discussing the Book at all.) About 90 percent of Thelema, at a guess, is nothing but self-discipline. One is only allowed to do anything and everything so as to have more scope for exercising that virtue.
Concentrate on "Thou hast no right but to do thy will." The point is that any possible act is to be performed if it is a necessary factor in that Equation of your Will. Any act that is not such a factor, however harmless, noble, virtuous or what not, is at the best a waste of energy. But there are no artificial barriers on any type of act in general. The standard of conduct has one single touchstone. There may be—there will be—every kind of difficulty in determining whether, by this standard, any given act is 'right' or 'wrong'; but there should be no confusion. No act is righteous in itself, but only in reference to the True Will of the person who proposes to perform it. This is the Doctrine of Relativity applied to the moral sphere.”
Source: Magick Without Tears
“Shameful,' Rhysand purred, and we whirled to find him faintly illuminated by the light that broke in through the doorway. But he stood behind us- father into the passage, rather than toward the door. He hadn't come in through the throne room. With that ability of his, he had probably walked through the walls. 'Just shameful.' He stalked toward us. Tamlin remained holding me. 'Look at what you've done to my pet.'
Panting, neither of us said anything. But the air became a cold kiss upon my skin- upon my exposed breasts.
'Amarantha would be greatly aggrieved if she knew her little warrior was dallying with the human help,' Rhysand went on, crossing his arms. 'I wonder how she'd punish you. Or perhaps she'd stay true to habit and punish Lucien. He still has one eye to lose, after all. Maybe she'll put it in a ring, too.'
Ever so slowly, Tamlin removed my hands from his body and stepped out of my embrace.
'I'm glad to see you're being reasonable,' Rhysand said, and Tamlin bristled. 'Now, be a clever High Lord and buckle your belt and fix your clothes before you go out there.'
Tamlin looked at me, and, to my horror, did as Rhysand instructed. My High Lord never took his eyes off my face as he straightened his tunic and hair, then retrieved and fastened his belt again. The paint on his hands and clothes- paint from me- vanished.
'Enjoy your party,' Rhysand crooned, pointing to the door.
Tamlin's green eyes flickered as they continued to stare into mine. He softly said, 'I love you.' Without another glance at Rhysand, he left.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.”
“Shamefully, all of us have wanted revenge on someone at some point for something. I've lived since before man and buffalo roamed this small planet. I have survived the beginning, bloom, and death of countless enemies, civilizations, and people. And the one truth I have learned most during all of these centuries is the old Japanese proverb. If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by.”