“I believe one of our souls' major purposes is to know, love, and express our authentic selves. To live the life and be the person we were created to be. However, our true selves only emerge when it's safe to do so. Self-condemnation, shame, and guilt send your true nature into hiding. It's only in the safety of gentle curiosity, encouragement, and self-love that your soul can bloom as it was created to do.” KnowsBelievePersonsSoulSelfPurposeI BelieveSelf LoveSafeMajorsEncouragementShameSafetyGuiltCuriosityAuthenticityYour SoulLive LifeGentleHidingTrue SelfTrue NatureCondemnationAuthentic SelfShame And Guilt Author:Sue Thoele
“Once again, the hopeless cowardly Americans were back to repeat their cowardly act hiding behind a technological advance that God, most gracious, wanted it to be their curse and cause for shame.” WantedCausesBehindsShameCurseRepeatsHopelessHidingTechnologicalGraciousCowardlyCowardly Acts Author:Saddam Hussein
“Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed. Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.” WorldHeartMayHas BeensMatterValuesFoundVirtueSorrowGoodnessAll ThingsShameShiningTerrorCorruptionDrivenFleshHidingSecrecyPassing AwayHiding Place Book:Famous American plays of the 1920s and the 1930s Source: Famous American plays of the 1920s and the 1930s
“I love secrets. Here's a bunch of people who think they know each other over a long period of time. And they do. And they don't. Secrets aren't the same thing as shame, but they can fall in that category. I'm very interested in the ways that people are open and honest with one another and simultaneously in hiding. What we know about those we love is only part of the story. Who do we protect with our secrets? Others? Ourselves? These are questions that interest me in fiction. The public and the private self.” PeopleThinkingLongFallInterestLove IsSecretHonestProtectShameHiding Author:Victoria Redel
“I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.” KindEffectsShameLifetimeHidingEroticCumulative Book:Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
“Are you one of those people who says on a first date, 'I'm really not in a hurry to meet somebody, I figure if it happens, it happens'? Because those are the most desperate people of all. I'm just saying this so that if you are this person, you aren't hiding it from anybody. There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.” PeopleIfsFirstsPersonsHappensShareFiguresShameHungryDesperateHidingJust SayingFirst Date Author:Augusten Burroughs
“What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden - the passion for the revealed.” KnowsLovePassionKnowingShameHidingOne You Love Author:Marina Tsvetaeva
“The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame.” KnowsWayShouldPersonsLightDealsForeverArmsCriticismShameRidiculousFollyHidingSuperstitionsPoliteSuperstitiousCripplesInfamous Author:H. L. Mencken
“Have the courage to be exactly who you are without apology. Admit your mistakes without beating yourself up. Release all shame! Release all guilt! You cannot live if you are hiding behind what was. Focus on what is, right now, and that is you!” IfsBehindsMistakeFocusRight NowShameWho You AreGuiltReleaseHidingApologyBeating YourselfBeating Yourself Up Author:Iyanla Vanzant