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“When all of our idols are taken away, all our securities and defense mechanisms, we find out who we really are. We’re so little, so poor, so emptyand a shock to ourselves. But the Biblical God takes away our shame, and we are eventually able to present ourselves in an honest and humble form. Then we find out who we really are and who God is for usand it is more than enough. That is how an enslaved people became God’s people, Israel.”

People Littles Enough Able Form Poor Taken Honest Security Shame Israel Humble Defense Shock Idols Mechanism Biblical Who God Is Defense Mechanisms

Author:Aaron Lines

“Rather than being able to have a healthy relationship with our own sexual imagination, we're driven into some dark corners by shame and embarrassment and guilt, and those dark corners breed all sorts of monsters.”

Able Imagination Dark Healthy Shame Guilt Corners Driven Monsters Embarrassment Healthy Relationship

Author:Alan Moore

“Believe it or not, the number one fear in America remains public speaking. And, in some ways, I think that is a real shame because we are so blessed to live in a country where we are able to express ourselves, so we should want to do that.”

Thinking Way Want Should Believe Real Country Able America Numbers Shame Blessed Remains Public Speaking

Author:Dana Perino

“Human bodies are words, myriads of words, (In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay, Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.)”

Men Needs Humans Wells Body Able Natural Gay Shame Active Human Body Receptive Best Poem

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“That global poverty would end. That people would be able to eat. It's the worst shame in the world that people go hungry.”

People World Ends Would Be Able Poverty Worst Shame Hungry Global Poverty

Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor

“I have received many touching letters and emails from people who live in the most religious parts of the country, in places like rural Texas, saying it is so good to see someone be able to say I am an atheist without shame.”

People Country Able Religious Letters Shame Atheist Texas Touching Email

Author:Susan Jacoby

“The sexual revolution... it was the first time I had read anything that came close to describing those feelings of being outside of my body, feeling the shame, all of it, that I really was able to connect to in that book. So it sort of blew my mind. I was also listening to Tori Amos at the same time, so I was like, "Wait, what's happening?!" It was all a part of that, probably when I was, like, 13.”

Mind Firsts Book Feelings Body Able Waiting Revolution Listening Happenings First Time Shame Describing Sexual Revolution

Author:June Diane Raphael

“To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.”

Mean Able Decision Ego Shame Surrender Godly Falsity

Author:James McGreevey

“Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.”

Thinking Way Writing Mean Doe Seems Able Literature Novel Talent Draws Shame Rate Traditional Graphic Graphic Novels Second Rate

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“A man's character is like his house. If he tears boards off his house and burns them to keep himself warm and comfortable, his house soon becomes a ruin. If he tells lies to be able to do the things he shouldn't do but wants to, his character will soon become a ruin. A man with a ruined character is a shame on the face of the earth.”

Ifs Men Want Character Able Earth Faces Lying House Tears Comfortable Shame Warm Ruins Boards Ruined

Book:Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers

Source: Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers

“Yoga is really trying to liberate us from ... shame about our bodies. To love your body is a very important thing - I think the health of your mind depends on your being able to love your body.”

Thinking Trying Mind Important Body Able Success Love You Depends Yoga Shame Important Things Your Body Inspirational Yoga

Author:Rodney Yee

“There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.”

Looks Able Memories Existence Greater Progress Sorrow Shame Employed Recollection Tokens

Book:The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd

Source: The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd

“Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.”

Kind Doe Feelings Able Brain Easier Drug Shame Yeah Horrible

Author:Aimee Mann

“It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!”

Knows Men Looks Enough Able Young Women He Man Shame Misery Affair Casual Unspeakable

Book:Six Characters in Search of an Author

Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author

“It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.”

Humans Able Ambition Shame Infinity

Book:Rama II

Source: Rama II

“Your teaching must have the integrity of serious, sound words to which no one can take exception. If it does, no opponent will be able to find anything bad to say about us, and hostility will yield to shame.”

Ifs Doe Able Sound Teaching Serious Integrity Shame Opponents Exception Thought Provoking Yield Provoking Hostility

Author:Paul the Apostle

“You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that's what the storyteller is, and I think it's important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors think it's all about them, when in reality it's all about the audience being able to recognize themselves in you. The more you pull away from the public, the less power you have on screen.”

Thinking Important Stories Reality Would Be Able Actors Acting Audience Appreciate Shame Privilege Theatre Screens Tribes Storyteller Healer

Author:Ben Kingsley

“Self-compassion is key because when we're able to be gentle with ourselves in the midst of shame, we're more likely to reach out, connect, and experience empathy.”

Self Able Compassion Keys Empathy Shame Gentle Midst Reach Out Self Compassion

Book:Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“Shame occurs when you haven't been able to get away with the 'who' you want people to think you are.”

People Thinking Want Able Havens Shame Get Away

Author:Carl Whitaker

“The shame of the U.S.S. Liberty incident is that our sailors were treated as though they were enemies, rather than the patriots and heroes that they were. There is no other incident--beyond Israeli attack on the U.S.S. Liberty--that shows the power of the Israeli Lobby by being able to silence successive American governments. Allowing the lies told by the Israelis and their minions in the U.S. is disheartening to all of us who are proud of our servicemen.”

Shows Government Able Lying Silence Liberty Enemy Proud Hero Shame Treated Allowing Patriot Incidents Israeli Sailor American Government Minions Servicemen Disheartening

Author:James Abourezk

“I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him.”

Able Shame Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Lloyd Banks

“Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's terrorizes us, it has power over us. When we are prepared to discuss it aloud, we might have power over it. It's thought of as a mental illness and it is a physical illness, affecting the brain. There should be no shame in having it, yet people still don't talk about it”

People Should Stills Might Able Names Brain Shame Prepared Illness Mental Illness Demon Over It Alzheimer Alzheimer's

Author:Terry Pratchett