“There is a huge amount of shame connected to the feeling of not being loved, because love and family, biological or not, confirms our existence. Everyone needs to be seen, accepted and loved.” NeedsFeelingsExistenceHugeAmountShameConnectedAcceptedBeing LovedLove And Family Author:Anne Sewitsky
“What would happen if people practiced openness and honesty? If people talked about their real challenges without shame or fear of rejection? My guess is that people would feel less alone and isolated. People would be willing to share more, and as a result, society would feel more connected to each other and their experiences.” PeopleIfsFeelsRealHappensWould BeChallengesResultsShareHonestyWillingShameConnectedRejectionOpennessIsolatedFear Of Rejection Author:Deborah Reber
“Imagine Americans who go to Paris. Why would you want to go where someone's going to disparage you? Why would you go anywhere where they treat you bad? Well, that's how it is for us to go to Mexico. You have to be on your guard, because I think the Mexicans are harder on the Mexicans, the Mexican-Americans. They don't see us as Mexican. I think part of it's a class issue and a color issue. We're more connected to their servants, so what are we doing staying at a nice hotel? There's a kind of shame.” ThinkingWantWellsKindClassIssuesNiceImagineColorTreatsHarderShameConnectedServantParisHotelStayingMexicoMexicanMexican American Author:Sandra Cisneros
“The thing we want for all our kids is that they be connected with a learning community and that they have strong social and familial relationships. If we can do whatever we can do to create that and to reduce bullying and to reduce the kind of pain and shame so many kids feel for so many reasons, that stuff is going to reduce drug addiction.” IfsWantFeelsKindReasonKidsPainStrongSocialStuffCan DoCommunityDrugShameAddictionConnectedBullyingDrug AddictionDrug Addict Author:Maia Szalavitz
“It'd be a shame to talk about the universe and not show some images of it, because we have some of the more stunning representations of our field relative to any of the sciences. But I don't use the imagery as a substitute for the insights and wisdom I can convey so that when you leave you say to yourself, "Wow, I'm a little more deeply connected to the universe, and I want to learn more."” WantLittlesI CanUseShowsUniverseFieldsShameInsightConnectedSubstitutesRelativeWowRepresentationImageryStunning Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be separated from one another. When one comes to an end, the other will end also and one cannot end without the other. The fact that no war has broken out in Europe for fifty years is connected in some mysterious way with the fact that for fifty years no new Picasso has appeared either.” WayYearsTwoWarEndsFactsCultureFightingHeavenHellBrokenGloryEuropeShameConnectedMysteriousFiftyHeaven And HellNo WarMysterious Ways Author:Milan Kundera
“Boundaries emerge from deep within. They are connected to letting go of guilt and shame, and to changing our beliefs about what we deserve. As our thinking about this becomes clearer, so will our boundaries. Boundaries are also connected to a Higher Timing than our own. We’ll set a limit when we’re ready, and not a moment before. So will others. There’s something magical about reaching that point of becoming ready to set a limit. We know we mean what we say; others take us seriously too. Things change, not because we’re controlling others, but because we’ve changed.” ThinkingKnowsLifeMeanMomentsSuccessBeliefChangedReadyBecomingHigherLimitsLetting GoDeserveShameGuiltConnectedBoundariesReachingTimingThings ChangeDeep Within Author:Melody Beattie
“I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the great outcomes were but randomly connected to our endeavors, that life was beyond mending, that love was loss, that nothing worth saying was sayable, that dullness was general, that disintegration was irresistible.” FeltLossShameConnectedAwfulRecognitionOutcomesEndeavorIrresistibleDullnessDisintegrationFatalismMending Book:Netherland Source: Netherland