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“Behold, O Lord, that I am indignant with myself, for my senseless, profitless, hurtful, perilous passions; that I loathe myself, for these inordinate, unseemly, deformed, false, shameful, disgraceful passions; that my confusion is daily before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me. Alas! woe, woe! O me, how long?”

Long Faces Passion Lord Shame Confusion Covered Woe Alas Shameful Hurtful Loathe Disgraceful Indignant

Book:The private devotions of Lancelot Andrewes

Source: The private devotions of Lancelot Andrewes

“Have charity; have patience; have mercy. Never bring a human being, however silly, ignorant, or weak--above all, any little child--to shame and confusion of face. Never by petulance, by suspicion, by ridicule, even by selfish and silly haste--never, above all, by indulging in the devilish pleasure of a sneer--crush what is finest and rouse up what is coarsest in the heart of any fellow-creature.”

Source: Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)

“Masturbation is a meditation on self-love. So many of us are afflicted with self-loathing, bad body images, shame about our body functions, and confusion about sex and pleasure, I recommend an intense love affair with yourself”

Self Body Sex Pleasure Meditation Self Love Function Shame Affair Intense Confusion Body Image Love Affair Loathing Masturbation Self Loathing Intense Love

Author:Betty Dodson

“Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.”

Waiting Loss Ready Expression Shame Guilt Confusion Innocence

Book:The Works of Mr. Congreve in Two Volumes

Source: The Works of Mr. Congreve in Two Volumes

“Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.”

Mind Soul Reason Done Action Pain Behinds Smart Conscious Shame Flesh Wounds Confusion Wicked Repentance Perpetual Torment Remorse Ulcers

Author:Plutarch

“Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more completely. Perhaps the best way to phrase it is to say that meditation showed me that the other side of anxiety is desire. They exist in relationship to each other, not independently.”

World Way Desire Felt Sides Meditation Anxiety Let Me Shame Response Flesh Best Way Confusion Phrases Anxious

Book:Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught

Source: Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught

“I do not view suicide as wicked, just terribly sad. There is only one death, but it is like a stone cast into a pond - the ripples stretch far. Such an act must leave a burden of sorrow, guilt, shame and confusion on an entire family. A natural death, such as my father suffered, is hard enough to deal with. A decision to end one's life must be still more devastating for those left behind. I cannot imagine the degree of hopelessness someone must feel to contemplate such an act.”

“Life is a series of embarrassing moments which leave you feeling alone in your confusion and shame”

Moments Feelings Life Is Shame Series Confusion Embarrassing Feeling Alone Embarrassing Moment

Author:Miranda Hart

“There is no shame in confusion or fear. "There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. . . . It was the silence that betrayed us."”

Silence Grace Shame Confusion Betrayed

Author:Barack Obama

“If there is a sort of national American emotion I would call it optimism. If there is an English one I would call it embarrassment - not even pessimism - just sheer shame, embarrassment and confusion.”

Ifs Emotion Optimism Shame Confusion Pessimism Sheer Embarrassment

Author:Stephen Fry

“The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity.”

“Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.”

Should Names Moral Deserve Shame Profit Confusion

Author:Bob Dole

“If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation pursue you through life, and after death shame and confusion of face to eternity.”

Source: Prefatory note There is no natural religion. All religions are one. The marriage of heaven and hell Visions of the daughters of Albion. A song of liberty. America. Europe. The book of Urizen. The book of Los. Ahania. The song of Los. The four Zoas. Milton. Jerusalem. On Homer's poetry; On Virgil. Laocoön. The ghost of Abel