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“Every conflict we face in life is rich with positive and negative potential. It can be a source of inspiration, enlightenment, learning, transformation, and growth-or rage, fear, shame, entrapment, and resistance. The choice is not up to our opponents, but to us, and our willingness to face and work through them.”

Source: Resolving conflicts at work: a complete guide for everyone on the job

“Every writer scrounges for inspiration in different places, and there's no shame in raiding the headlines. It's necessary, in fact, when attempting contemporary satire. Sharp-edged humor relies on topical reference points.”

Different Facts Inspiration Shame Contemporary Rely Satire Attempting Different Place Headlines Raiding

Author:Carl Hiaasen

“You can cry, ain't no shame in it.”

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Author:Will Smith

“There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.”

Men Needs Doe Helping Hands Inspiration Social Brother Shame Helping Hand

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“Contemporary fantasists all bow politely to Lord Tennyson and Papa Tolkien, then step around them to go back to the original texts for inspiration--and there are a lot of those texts. We have King Arthur and his gang in English; we've got Siegfried and Brunhild in German; Charlemagne and Roland in French; El Cid in Spanish; Sigurd the Volsung in Icelandic; and assorted 'myghtiest Knights on lyfe' in a half-dozen other cultures. Without shame, we pillage medieval romance for all we're worth.”

Source: The Rivan Codex: Ancient Texts of THE BELGARIAD and THE MALLOREON

“Fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air. It brings meekness and inspiration, reduces our egoism, soothes our troubles and shames our wickedness. It is discipline in the equality of men--for all men are equal before fish.”

Men Soul Inspiration Chance Trouble Air Discipline Pure Equal Shame Fishes Fishing Wickedness Egoism Meekness Fly Fishing Equality Of Man

Author:Herbert Hoover

“You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.”

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Author:Brené Brown

“[With depression] you get a real sense of shame, because your friends go, 'Oh come on, show me the lump, show me the x-rays,' and of course you've got nothing to show.”

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Author:Ruby Wax

“The evil of what had been done to Crane and the choices he'd made because of it were living inside him, just like I'd have to carry around forever everything I'd survived and done. That's the way it was, I was realizing. Every person carried some bad, and we all had some good. Our job was to figure out how to let only the good stuff steer.”

Inspiration Courage Shame

Book:Litani

Source: Litani

“Cyber bullying occurs online daily. Most don't consider their actions or words to be bullying. Here's a few clues that you're a cyber bully. (1) You post information about someone in order to ruin their character. (2) You post threats to someone. (3) You tag someone in vulgar degrading posts. (4) You post any information intended to harm or shame another individual seeking to gain attention. Then, you are a cyber bully and need to get some help.”

Source: Sweet Destiny