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“In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time.”

People Done Enough Used Lying Desire Choices Left Secret Fiction Trouble Source Proud Exercise Cat Shame Silent Work Out Nine Curious Fascinated Listeners Undone Rough Times Avid Nine Lives

Author:Marge Piercy

“Every conflict we face in life is rich with positive and negative potential. It can be a source of inspiration, enlightenment, learning, transformation, and growth-or rage, fear, shame, entrapment, and resistance. The choice is not up to our opponents, but to us, and our willingness to face and work through them.”

Source: Resolving conflicts at work: a complete guide for everyone on the job

“Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt in infancy.”

Wells Self Choices Doubt Exercise Determination Shame Spite Restraint Infancy Unbroken Self Restraint Free Choice

Book:Insight and Responsibility

Source: Insight and Responsibility

“Choice! The key is choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame, and self-pity. But hold on! If this is true then why have so many among us apparently elected to live in this manner? The answer is obvious. Those who live in unhappy failure have never exercised their options for a better way of life because they have never been aware that had any choices”

Ifs Way Needs Self Choices Answers Grief Poverty Ignorance Keys Shame Obvious Unhappy Pity Better Ways Self Pity Wallowing

Author:Og Mandino

“We're talking about everybody's free right to have choice. And so what we're also getting are interesting messages like you really need to obey the command of Allah and put a scarf on your head. And what we caution well-intentioned Americans and others to think about is whether the scarf matches their own values related to issues of honor and shame.”

Thinking Needs Wells Values Choices Interesting Talking Issues Like You Honor Messages Shame Command Related Caution Scarves

Author:Asra Nomani

“My generation is one of the first generations of "choiceful" women - women who have actually had the choice of how they architect their lives - and I don't think shame should have any place in that. But as that generation, you get cuts and bruises.”

Thinking Should Firsts Choices Cutting Generations Should Have Shame Architect My Generation Bruises Cuts And Bruises

Author:Tracee Ellis Ross

“I think as a gay person, there was no way in my generation to not grow up with shame and a sense of being wrong. It was impossible to avoid. Externally, you might make choices that are very public and very open but internally that was a struggle.”

Thinking Way Persons Might Choices Grows Struggle Growing Up Impossible Generations Gay Shame My Generation Being Wrong

Author:Ira Sachs

“A false identity is any lie that contradicts our God-given identities through Scripture. These false identities can be created by ourselves because of sin in our lives, choices made, or wrong turns taken and the regret, guilt, and shame that follows. Other false identities are handed to us by outside sources, maybe a damaging word spoken to us by someone or a childhood of abuse. However, not all false identities are negative on the surface, such as successful, attractive, wealthy, athletic, or talented. But even those identities can become false when we place too much of our weight on them.”

Lying Choices Sin Successful Taken Childhood Identity Regret Negative Abuse Shame Guilt Scripture Attractive Wealthy Athletic Life Choices Wrong Turn

Author:Matthew West

“The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.”

Feels Matter Choices Mistake Bases Shame Humiliation Ignominy

Author:Milan Kundera

“Jung first gave us the term ‘shadow’ to refer to those parts of our personality that have been rejected out of fear, ignorance, shame, or lack of love. His basic notion of the shadow was simple: ‘the shadow is the person you would rather not be.’ He believed that integrating the shadow would have a profound impact, enabling us to rediscover a deeper source of our own spiritual life. ‘To do this,’ Jung said, ‘we are obliged to struggle with evil, confront the shadow, to integrate the devil. There is no other choice.’”

“We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing. If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.”

People Ifs Feels Hard Body Choices Fun Interest Judging Areas Weight Shame Folks Appearance Feel Good Vulnerable Deficiency Pads Judging Others Launching I Feel Good

Author:Brené Brown

“You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.”

Way Needs Self Choices Grief Poverty Ignorance Shame Pity Better Ways Self Pity Way To Live Lynching Wallowing

Book:A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By

Source: A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By

“England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame and will get war.”

Has Beens War Choices England Shame Chosen

Author:Winston Churchill

“I got two choices, both require pain One’s the pain of change and the pain of staying the same One of ‘em leads to joy, other one leads to shame One of ‘em leads to freedom, the other keeps me in chains.”

Two Pain Joy Choices Shame Chains Ems Staying Two Choices

Author:Andy Mineo

“You have two choices in life when it comes to truthful observations by others that anger you: You can be ashamed and cover it up by letting your pride take you in the extreme opposite direction, in order to make the point that they are wrong. Or, you can break down the walls of pride by accepting vulnerability as a strength, not a weakness. As you walk through your vulnerability, you will meet humility on the way to courage. From here, courage allows us to let go of shame and rise higher into the person we are meant to be, not the person that needs to be right. This is the road to confidence and self worth.”