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“A dog has no shame. If he can do it, you can watch.”

“There's so much shame involved in not being like everyone else. But I learned that the things that made me unique were good. Dealing with problems can be awful. But in the end I got positive results. I don't think I would have been a writer if I didn't have anxiety.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Made Ends Problem Results Involved Anxiety Unique Shame Awful Positive Results Dealing With Problems

Author:Jenny Lawson

“I don't really have any secret shames. If I like an artist, I like them. Nothing to feel embarrassed about.”

Ifs Feels Artist Secret Shame Embarrassed

Author:Mark Hoppus

“If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a very ordinary person now elevated into the emblematic. Time, shame, complicity, or discomfort are the only things that make us pretend History is impersonal or far removed from the power and consequences of our every lived moment.”

Ifs Humans Persons Moments Realizing Ordinary Shadow Consequence Shame Encounters Concrete Burned Discomfort Hiroshima Complicity Ordinary Person

Author:Chris Abani

“That being said, if you slept with me and are filled with shame at the possibility of the world knowing, then you should have considered that before you hopped into bed with a writer.”

Ifs World Should Said Knowing Possibility Bed Should Have Shame Filled

Author:Kevin Keck

“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

“If there's not someone in your social circle who doesn't look like you, then shame on you.”

Ifs Looks Social Like You Shame Circles Shame On You

Author:Leigh Anne Tuohy

“I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.”

People Ifs Long Stills Enough Song Realizing Records Written Heard Shame Excited

Author:Steven Soderbergh

“If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.”

Ifs Feelings Pain Black Hurt Gratitude Lonely Shame Holes Gentleness Hurt Feelings Black Hole

Author:Bellamy Young

“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

“One out of four people internationally believe if their country goes to war, The United States would be the opponent. As a veteran, I hang my head in shame over that.”

People Ifs Believe War Country States Would Be United United States Four Shame Opponents Veteran

Author:Jesse Ventura

“Do I have YOUR permission to be a Supernatural God? If I want to open heaven, and in a moment in time, touch the heart of a daughter and supernaturally break all the darkness, shame, and torment in her life, MAY I DO THAT?”

Ifs Want Heart May Moments Heaven Break Darkness Daughter Shame Permission Torment Moments In Time

Author:Jim Anderson

“A man who hates the passion cuts off their causes. But a man who remains among their causes experiences even against his will the conflict from the passions. It is not possible to be mentally inclined toward a passion if one does not love its cause. For who, disdaining shame, is given to vainglory? Or who, loving lowliness, is bothered by dishonor? Who, having a broken and humble heart, accepts fleshly sweetness? Or who, believing in Christ, is concerned about temporal things, or argues about them?”

“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.”

Ifs Want Feels Kind Reason Kids Pain Strong Social Stuff Can Do Community Drug Shame Addiction Connected Bullying Drug Addiction Drug Addict

Author:Maia Szalavitz

“I wonder if at this point, I mean, given [Donald's Trump] noted inability to deal with shame, humiliation and loss, and what seem like epically deep psychic wounds that he carries around, that he just wants to go and be in a place that he feels like he created.”

Ifs Want Feels Mean Seems Given Loss Deals Wonder Trump Shame Wounds Carrie Psychics Humiliation Inability

Author:Michelle Goldberg

“No matter what feeling comes up - numbness, irritability, shame - if I let it arise and play itself through, I naturally open into wakefulness and care.”

Ifs Matter Play Feelings Care Shame No Matter What Come Up Arise Numbness

Author:Tara Brach

“Even the Declaration of Independence starts out all men are created equal, so I see my advocacy as part of an effort to make the equality principle everything the founders would have wanted it to be if they weren't held back by the society in which they lived and particularly the shame of slavery.”

Ifs Men Wanted Effort Principles Equal Shame Independence Slavery Founders Declaration Declaration Of Independence Advocacy

Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“It's a shame to see drug dealers enter and leave the United States as if nothing in addition to those that purchase weapons and firearms.”

Ifs States United United States Drug Weapons Shame Dealer Firearms Drug Dealers

Author:Juan Pablo Escobar

“I think it's a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven't had the time to learn their craft. It doesn't matter if it's acting or music, you really have to learn how to do it from the bottom up because unless you have a great work ethic... fame is a terrible thing to have.”

Ifs Thinking Matter Young Actors Acting Havens Terrible Fame Musician Ethics Shame Bottom Crafts Work Ethic Great Work Terrible Things Young Actors Great Work Ethic

Author:Denis Leary

“Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.”

Ifs Important Problem Felt Our Lives Sadness Bigger Shame Important Things Ashamed Unattractive Bigger Problems

Author:Mike Mills

“The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.”

Ifs Should Art Whole Moments Would Be Together Film Humanity Aspect Shame Celebrate Cinema Divides Festivals Hymns Film Festivals

Author:Keanu Reeves

“If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.”

Ifs Men Suffering Evil Literature Shame Ill Profit Deeds Disgraceful Good Words

Author:Aeschylus

“If only shame were a reliable engine for behavior modification. All it does is make me feel bad, which inspires me to bust open a bag of cheese popcorn, which then makes me feel crappy about my weight.”

Ifs Feels Doe Inspire Behavior Weight Shame Bags Engines Cheese Popcorn Modification Behavior Modification

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.”

People Ifs World Looks Today Three Half Six Shame Financial Population Billions Finance Gambling Globes Loan Financial System

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“If my revelation of having bipolar II has encouraged one person to seek help, then it is worth it. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.”

Ifs Needs Persons Helping Suffering Shame Seeking Revelations Worth It Bipolar Seeking Help

Author:Catherine Zeta-Jones

“Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.”

Ifs Men Sometimes Would Be Simple Secret Quality Regret Hero Worship Standards Shame Envy Satisfied Admire Hero Worship Great Qualities

Author:Mark Twain

“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness — and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling — their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.”

Source: War Talk

“Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.”

Ifs Share Easier Shame Handle

Author:Craig Thompson

“A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man who plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric.”

Ifs Men Feels Should Real Reason Science Evolution Shame Ashamed No Reason Ancestor Grandfather Rhetoric Obscure Acquaintance Be A Man Apes Plunge Religious Prejudice

Author:Thomas Huxley

“In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval, I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject her and all of her codependent baggage. I am Codependent No More.”

Ifs Knows Trying Mother Term Shame Rejects Uncertain Baggage Disapproval Codependent

Author:Susan Juby

“We are all freaks. Yes! Alone in our rooms at night, we are all weirdoes and outcasts and losers. That is what being a teenager is all about! Whether you admit it or not, you are all worried that the others won’t accept you, that if they knew the real you, they would recoil in horror. Each of us carries with us a secret shame that we think is somehow unique…And if we are, each of us, freaks – then can’t we accept what’s different in each other and move on?”

Ifs Thinking Different Real Moving Night Rooms Secret Accepting Horror Unique Shame Teenager Worried Carrie Loser Freak Outcast Real You Recoil Being A Teenager

Author:James St. James

“(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.) (You are wrong. Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.) (And you are deserving of shame?) (I am. I am trying to tell you.) 'We were stupid,' he said, 'because we believed in things.' 'Why is this stupid?' 'Because there are not things to believe in.' (Love?) (There is no love. Only the end of love.) (Goodness?) (Do not be a fool.) (God?) (If God exists, He is not to be believed in.)”

People Ifs Feels Trying Believe Said Ends Stupid Fool Goodness Shame Ashamed Deserving No Love Closeness God Exists Believe In Love

Book:Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”

People Ifs Should Mind Wells Persons Wish Knowing Ignorance Shame Ignorant Vanity Ashamed Misfortunes Sensible Inability Misplaced

Author:Jane Austen

“A wave of blood goes up to my head, my stomach shrinks together, as if something dangerous has just missed hitting me. It's as if I've been caught stealing, or telling a lie; or as if I've heard other people talking about me, saying bad things about me, behind my back. There's the same flush of shame, of guilt and terror, and of cold disgust with myself. But I don't know where these feelings have come from, what I've done.”

Source: Cat's Eye

“Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is around us, for it is everywhere; and those spirits watch us, for they are commissioned to gaurd us; and if we were dying in pain and shame, if scorn smote us on all sides, and hatred crushed us, angels see our tortures, recognize our innocence, and God waits ony a speration of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward.”

Ifs Men World Earth Pain Spirit Waiting Sides Race Watches Dying Angel Hatred Shame Rewards Flesh Invisible Kingdoms Innocence Torture Crowns Scorn Crushed

Author:Charlotte Bronte

“Well, it's New Year's now but I don't feel that way anymore. I wonder if you do either. Something's happening to me. It's like I'm shrinking smaller and smaller and I can't stp it. There's just os much wrong that I can't imagine the shame in admitting even the tiniest part of it. When you left it was like there was this huge gap to fill, but instead of spreading wide enough to do it I just fell right in, and I'm still falling. Like I'm half-asleep, and I can't wake up, can't wake up.”

Ifs Way Feels Years Wells Stills I Can Enough Fall Left Half Wonder Imagine Huge Happenings Wake Up Shame Wide Gaps New Year Admitting Shrinking

Author:Sarah Dessen

“If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!”

Ifs May Hands Tears Sorrow Shame Lips Hearing Ruins Gentle Curse Poison Touched Spokes Belonging Shelter Roof

Book:Dombey and Son

Source: Dombey and Son

“Dear Mia, What can I say? I don't know all that much about romance novels, but I think you must be the Stephen King of the genre. Your book is hot. Thanks for letting me read it. Anyone who doesn't want to publish it is a fool. Anyway, since I know it's your birthday, and I also know you never remember to back anything up, here's a little something I made for you. It would be a shame if Ransom My Heart got lost before it ever saw the light of day because your hard drive crashed. See you tonight. Love, Michael”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Heart Littles Made Book Hard Light Would Be Remember Romance Lost Novel Saws Fool Kings My Heart Hot Shame Dear Thanks Genre Tonight Publish Romance Novel Mia Ransom

Author:Meg Cabot

“Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.”

“"That's sad," said Montag, quietly, "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know."”

Ifs Knows Said Findings Shame Killing Hunting Referring Hounds

Author:Ray Bradbury

“So I say, if you are burning, burn. If you can stand it, the shame will burn away and leave you shining, radiant, and righteously shameless”

Ifs Shame Shining Burning Radiant Shameless

Author:Elizabeth Cunningham

“He leant his two elbows on his knees, and his chin on his hands and remained rapt in dumb meditation. On my inquiring the subject of his thoughts, he answered gravely 'I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!' 'For shame, Heathcliff!' said I. 'It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.' 'No, God won’t have the satisfaction that I shall,' he returned. 'I only wish I knew the best way! Let me alone, and I'll plan it out: while I'm thinking of that I don't feel pain.”

Source: Wuthering Heights

“We are Adam and Eve born out of chaos called creation Ribbing me gave you life yet you forget there will always be a part of me in you yes I taunted and tempted you with my forbidden fruit does that make me the serpent too? Believe what you will but if I am exiled alone I know we will be together again someday naked without shame in paradise My thanks to you for being in on my sin”

“In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.”

Ifs Light Past Community Healing Darkness Shame Wounds Spiritual Life Teens Our Past Erase Inner Darkness

Author:Brennan Manning

“If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.”

Ifs Men Self Honest Destruction Shame Autobiography Self Destruction

Author:Albert Camus

“There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.”

Ifs Life Lying Goal Grace Honesty Offers Glory Shame Destructive Dishonesty

Author:M.J. Rose

“There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could not love her. Perhaps she had not in herself that which he wanted. It was the deepest motive of her soul, this self-mistrust. It was so deep she dared neither realise nor acknowledge. Perhaps she was deficient. Like an infinitely subtle shame, it kept her always back. If it were so, she would do without him. She would never let herself want him. She would merely see.”

Ifs Want Soul Self Wanted Lasts Shame Acknowledge Phrases Motive Subtle Realising Warmth Fury Mistrust Want Him

Book:The Essential D.H. Lawrence

Source: The Essential D.H. Lawrence

“I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.”

Ifs Two Tragedy Shame Two Lives

Book:Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

“It's horrible being ashamed of someone you care about; it eats away at you. And if you let it get to you, if you give up the fight and surrender, eventually that shame turns to hate.”

Ifs Giving Care Hate Turns Fighting Giving Up Shame Surrender Horrible Ashamed

Book:Forbidden

Source: Forbidden

“One of the few downsides to being awakened is that we no longer require sleep; therefore we also no longer dream. It's a shame, because if I could dream, I know I'd dream about you.”

Ifs Knows Dream Sleep Shame If I Could Awakened Dimitri Dimitri Belikov Spirit Bound

Book:Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel

Source: Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel

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