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“If fallacies come knocking at my door,I'd rather feed, and shelter full a score,Than hide behind the black portcullis, doubt,And run the risk of barring one Truth out.And if pretension for a time deceive,And prove me one too ready to believe,Far less my shame, than if by stubborn act,I brand as lie, some great colossal Fact.”

Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

“Though we don't have a cure for cancer we at least have stopped being too ashamed to even say the name of the disease - and the trajectory of the AIDS epidemic is edifying, isn't it? Shame shuts down productive thinking, and I'd like to open the doors. It's a first step.”

Thinking Firsts Names Steps Doors Disease Shame Cancer Aids Cures Ashamed Productive First Steps Epidemics Trajectory Aids Epidemic

Author:Laura Mullen

“Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?”

Heart Reason Joy Suffering Struggle Doors Regret My Heart Shame Accepted Sand Adore Captured Frantic

Author:George Sand

“Give me hunger, pain and want, Shut me out with shame and failure From your doors of gold and fame, Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! But leave me a little love.”

Want Giving Littles Pain Doors Fame Gold Give Me Shame Hunger Leaving Me Little Love

Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”

“I can see her clearly, standing on the rock beside Peg Gratton, unflinching before Eaton and the rest of the race committee. I can't remember when I've been that brave, and it shames me. The truth is, I feel myself being fascinated and repelled by her; She's both a mirror of myself and a door to part of the island that i'm not. It's like when the mare goddess looked into my eye; I felt that there was a part of myself that I didn't know.”

Knows Feels I Can Eye Remember Felt Race Doors Rocks Truth Is Standing Mirrors Shame Brave Islands Fascinated Goddess Committees Remember When Peg Mares

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of doors, after his morning meal, without either shoes or tunic; not that he sought vain-glory from such novelties, but he would accustom himself to be ashamed only of what deserves shame, and to despise all other sorts of disgrace.”

Black Morning Seeing Doors Fashion Glory Deserve Shame Shoes Vain Meals Ashamed Thrive Despise Purple Novelty Disgrace

Book:Plutarch's Lives

Source: Plutarch's Lives

“White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially and financially rewarded. When you learn to say and perhaps even believe the right things about race, doors are opened for you. When you say the wrong thing, those doors slam shut. Then, the gossips and church ladies will shame you publicly, demand that you be fired from your job, and use every avenue available to them to coerce a confession, a public apology and a staged conversion that contributes to their progressive narrative.”

“The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.”

Dark Laughing Doors Shame Invites Being Human Malice Meanness Inspirational Sufi Radical Acceptance House Guests Dark Thoughts

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“I ate too much and masturbated too recently, you know? It's bad to like jerk off and run out the door, 'cause you run into somebody. "Oh, she knows..." You got to take some time alone to process the shame.”

Thinking Knows Running Causes Process Laughing Too Much Doors Shame Jerk Me Alone Alone Time

Author:Louis C. K.

“Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors.”

Philosophy Doors Shame Size

Author:Neil Diamond