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“It's a shame that the president doesn't embrace the effort to reduce spending. None of us like using situations like the sequester or the debt ceiling or the operation of government to try to engage the president to deal with this.”

Trying Government President Deals Effort Situation Shame Embrace Debt Spending Operations Ceilings Debt Ceiling

Author:Mitch McConnell

“Since I come from a family of mental instability, and I have suffered depression myself, I knew that living in shame is senseless and painful, and that by talking about it, I have come to peace with it. The stigma behind people's suffering needs to end. We as a community need to embrace these disorders, try to understand them (if only just to talk about them) so that we can cease being defined by them.”

People Ifs Needs Trying Ends Suffering Community Behinds Talking Shame Embrace Painful Cease Defined Disorder Stigma Instability

Author:Mariel Hemingway

“Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart.”

Heart Joy Watches Sadness Anger Shame Embrace Forgiving Guilt Including Love Everyone

Author:Jim Henson

“Our stories are not meant for everyone. Hearing them is a privilege, and we should always ask ourselves this before we share: "Who has earned the right to hear my story?" If we have one or two people in our lives who can sit with us and hold space for our shame stories, and love us for our strengths and struggles, we are incredibly lucky. If we have a friend, or small group of friends, or family who embraces our imperfections, vulnerabilities, and power, and fills us with a sense of belonging, we are incredibly lucky.”

“Shame is not your friend. It depletes your power. Let go of shame and embrace your magnificence.”

Emotional Letting Go Shame Embrace Magnificence

Author:Judith Orloff

“Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully.”

Inspirational Mind Shows Desire Teacher Special Shame Embrace Guilt Clinging Something Special Embrace Life

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

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

“When you finally embrace the gift of your sexual orientation it IS the end; the end of shame, fear and oppression. You leave the darkness of the closet and begin a life of honesty, authenticity and freedom.”

Ends Darkness Honesty Gay Shame Embrace Authenticity Oppression Closets Orientation Gay Pride

Author:Anthony Venn-Brown

“The One who lives outside of time invites you into a reality that is informed by His perfect plans to give you hope and a future. God speaks in the past tense about battles you’re currently fighting. And He buries the shame of yesterday in order to resurrect the moment you are in and sustain you in the season He is calling you to embrace.”

Giving Moments Reality Past Order Fighting Speak Perfect Plans Calling Battle Seasons Shame Embrace Yesterday Invites Tense

Book:Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

Source: Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

“...there was a blond misty boy sitting beside me, and he looked at me, and I at him, and we were not strangers: our hands moved towards each other to embrace. I never heard his voice, for we did not speak; it is a shame, I should so like the memory of it. Loneliness, like fever, thrives on night, but there with him light broke, breaking in the trees like birdsong, and when sunrise came, he loosened his fingers from mine, and walked away, that misty boy, my friend.”

Source: Some postwar American writers

“Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately extinguished lamp is enough to cause a miscarriage. And to think that from such a frail beginning a tyrant or butcher may be born! You who trust in your physical strength, who embrace the gifts of fortune and consider yourself not their ward but their son, you who have a domineering spirit, you who consider yourself a god as soon as success swells your breast, think how little could have destroyed you!”

Thinking May Littles Enough Spirit Causes Born Compassion Son Birth Shame Embrace Fortune Smell Destroyed Breasts Tyrants Lamps Frail Butchers Precarious Miscarriage Physical Strength

Author:Pliny the Elder