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“The offence is what is improperly called the death of an infant, who has ceased to be, before knowing what existence is, a result of a nature not to give the slightest inquietude to the most timid imagination; and which can cause no regrets but to the very person who, through a sentiment of shame and pity, has refused to prolong a life begun under the auspices of misery.”

Giving Persons Causes Imagination Results Existence Knowing Regret Shame Misery Pity Sentiments Infant No Regrets Offence

Book:Theory of Legislation

Source: Theory of Legislation

“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.”

Needs Feelings Existence Huge Amount Shame Connected Accepted Being Loved Love And Family

Author:Anne Sewitsky

“If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes no costly demands and which fails to distinguish between natural and Christian existence, then we cannot help regarding the cross as an ordinary everyday calamity, as one of the trials and tribulations of life. We have then forgotten that the cross means rejection and shame as well as suffering .”

“Most writers are lazy intellectuals, and it's a goddamn shame because a writer with an audience has a moral responsibility to make readers think about the world in a different way than what they're used to. Why else would you pick up a book if not to inhabit another realm of existence for a while?”

Ifs Thinking World Way Book Different Used Existence Responsibility Moral Audience Reader Picks Shame Different Ways Realms Lazy Moral Responsibility

Author:Kevin Keck

“Emotions like guilt and shame cut you off from web of existence and that causes inflammation in the body. I would recommend that you go to a level of awareness where you can be an observer of your thoughts and emotions and use mindfulness.”

Use Body Causes Levels Emotion Existence Cutting Awareness Mindfulness Shame Guilt Observers Thoughts And Emotions

Author:Deepak Chopra

“I have church on Sunday.” “Of course you do.” “You’re welcome to come along.” “Thanks, but I’m allergic to incense.” “That’s a shame.” “It’s the bane of my existence.” - Beth and Jake”

Courses Church Existence Shame Welcome Thanks Sunday Bane Allergic Incense Jake Beth You Re Welcome Church On Sunday

Author:Alexandra Adornetto

“What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history.”

Ifs Men Enough Reality Form Strong Existence History Novel Pride Shame Fellows Conviction Episodes Documentaries Fellow Man Strong Enough Selected

Book:The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad

Source: The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad

“There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.”

Looks Able Memories Existence Greater Progress Sorrow Shame Employed Recollection Tokens

Book:The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd

Source: The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd

“It is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of violence and bitterness in the universe, while the former may develop a sense of shame in the opponent, and thereby bring about a transformation and change of heart.”

Heart May Universe Existence Violence Transformation Shame Former Opponents Latter Bitterness Change Of Heart

Book:In a Single Garment of Destiny

Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny