Best shame & past Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“O God, enlarge within us the sense of fellowship with all living things, even our brothers, the animals, to whom Thou gavest the earth as their home in common with us. We must remember with shame that in the past we have exercised the high dominion of man with ruthless cruelty so that the voice of the earth, which should have gone up to thee in song, has been a groan of pain. May we realize that they live, not for us alone, but for themselves and for Thee and that they love the sweetness of life.”

“I have a lot of -- I struggle with a lot of shame over my past. There have been times when I've been incredibly embarrassed about the things that happened to me. I don't think that there is one human being in this world that would wish, you know, to be injured as a kid the way -- in ways that I was.”

Thinking Knows World Way Humans Has Beens Kids Past Wish Human Beings Struggle Happened This World Shame Embarrassed Injured Wish You My Past

Author:Traci Lords

“Kerry Cohen's powerful, transfixing story will be familiar to many women, most of whom won't want to admit it. In this heartfelt and authentic memoir, Cohen transcends the pain and shame of a promiscuous past, and leaves readers with a sense of hope and triumph.”

Want Stories Pain Past Powerful Reader Shame Memoir Familiar Triumph Heartfelt Promiscuous

Author:Janice Erlbaum

“Past all shame, so past all truth.”

Past Shame Falsehood

Author:William Shakespeare

“I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know your shallow faith, your feeble prayer life, your inconsistent discipleship. And my word is this: I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be. Because you’re never going to be as you should be.”

“You let go of the past, and stop bringing the past into the present and replaying it into the future. You release guilt, shame, and you can create an entirely new pattern for yourself.”

Past Letting Go Shame Guilt Patterns Release

Author:Gabrielle Bernstein

“You look worldwide for the great leaders, and they're pretty thin on the ground, and of course the problem is unless you're squeaky, squeaky clean, something is going to come out of the cupboard. Most people aren't squeaky clean. Most people have fallen by the wayside once or twice in their lives, and because the world is so transparent now, I think they're very fearful of running for office. It's a huge shame, because often people who have really lived and are amazing people can be brought down by a past indiscretion.”

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Author:Jeremy Irons

“Growing up, I was constantly reminded to not to air our family's dirty laundry. Part of why domestic violence is allowed to continue is because there is often an unwritten rule in many families of abuse: Don't ask. Don't tell. Keeping quiet does no good. I found that sharing my story liberated me from my past. There is power in storytelling and, in that, healing. Owning my truth also empowered me. I will no longer be manipulated or controlled by guilt or shame.”

Past Healing Growing Up Violence Quiet Abuse Shame Guilt Storytelling Dirty Our Family Domestic Violence Empowered My Past Laundry

Author:Kambri Crews

“There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.”

Years Past Enjoy Quiet Shame Realization Quiet Life

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.”

Dream Pain Past Night Black Behinds Clear Bears Ocean Shame Slave Leaving Terror Wide Ancestor Rooted Tides Huts Swelling Daybreak

Author:Maya Angelou

“Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch her—doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there.”

Long Light Care Past Waiting Doubt Sorrow Breaths Shame Affection Hungry Spells Persist Forgetfulness Gloomy Subjection Tess Spectre Moodiness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)

“In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.”

Giving Wells Reason Past Night Grows Causes Mistake Middle Give Me Shame Painful Optimistic Encounters Rejoice Woe Middle Of The Night

Book:At Seventy: A Journal

Source: At Seventy: A Journal

“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

“When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.”

Real Past Sin Grace Shame Guilt Remorse Ragamuffin Gospel Sins Of The Past

Book:The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

“With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.”

Men Stills Past Time Memories Shame Errors Wounds Bitter Preparation Flavor

Book:Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus

“Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.”

Mind Heart Past Shame

Author:John Lyly

“Mindful grief means mourning and letting go of the past without expectation, fear, censure, blame, shame, control and so forth. Without such mindful grief, neither past nor person can be laid to rest.”

Mean Persons Past Grief Letting Go Expectations Shame Blame Grieving Mourning Censure

Book:How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

Source: How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

“Forget the past. The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.”

Ifs Men Humans Past Spiritual Dark Forget Effort Divine Shame Unreliable Forget The Past

Book:Autobiography of a Yogi

Source: Autobiography of a Yogi

“God does not want us to be living in the past, in shame, in fear, or in the future, in worry. He wants us to be living in the present, in now, with Him.”

Want Doe Past Worry Shame Want U Live In The Present Living In The Past

Author:Rebecca St. James

“That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. Starting again. Damning yesterday and facing tomorrow with your head held high. Times change. It's those that see it coming, and plan for it, and change themselves to suit, that prosper.”

Past Courage Plans Tomorrow Shame Guilt Starting Disappointment Wounds Yesterday Suits Sinking

Book:The Great Leveller: Best Served Cold, The Heroes and Red Country

Source: The Great Leveller: Best Served Cold, The Heroes and Red Country

“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

“We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.”

Trying Country Past Form Law Force Source Civilization Equal Shame Our Country Indian Patriot Dishonor

Author:George Crook

“Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.”

War Past Our Lives Plans Regret Ambition Expectations Shame Guilt Caught Caught Up

Author:Jack Kornfield

“I've made a terrible confession to you, he concluded gloomily. Do appreciate it, gentlemen. And it's not enough, not enough to appreciate it, you must not just appreciate it, it should also be precious to you, and if not, if this, too, goes past your souls, then it means you really do not respect me, gentlemen. I tell you that, and I will die of shame at having confessed to such men as you.”

Ifs Men Should Mean Made Soul Enough Past Dies Terrible Appreciate Shame Your Soul Gentleman Confession Respect Me

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an hour living in the past, with regret for lost joys or shame for things badly done (both utterly useless and weakening) or in a future which we either long for or dread. . . . There is only one minute in which you are alive, this minute, here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. Which is exactly what it is-a miracle and unrepeatable.”

“[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.”

Men Feels Different Reason Past Sin Simple Broken Shame Confession Past Wrongs

Book:Young India

Source: Young India

“In the past six months, our federal government has devised a dozen strategies to save America's financial markets. Each plan has been more costly, more risky, and less aligned with the principles of our country's free market economy than the last. I am disappointed to say that this latest plan puts all the rest of them to shame.”

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