“Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.” HumansEmotionQualityDevelopmentEssentialsShameGuiltNobleCivilizedMelancholyElegantRefinedMaintenanceHuman PotentialCivilized SocietyShame And Guilt Author:Willard Gaylin
“The desert floras shame us with their cheerful adaptations to the seasonal limitations. Their whole duty is to flower and fruit, and they do it hardly, or with tropical luxuriance, as the rain admits. ... One hopes the land may breed like qualities in her human offspring, not tritely to 'try,' but to do.” TryingHumansMayWholeQualityLandFlowerDutyRainShameFruitLimitationDesertCheerfulAdaptationOffspringTropicalFlora Book:Stories from the Country of Lost Borders Source: Stories from the Country of Lost Borders
“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.” IfsMenSometimesWould BeSimpleSecretQualityRegretHeroWorshipStandardsShameEnvySatisfiedAdmireHero WorshipGreat Qualities Author:Mark Twain
“There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... One person of integrity, can make a difference, a difference of life and death. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.” KnowsNeedsChildrenPersonsLongDoneVoiceDifferencesFreedomForgetQualityOur LivesDependsIntegrityShameVictimFilledPrisonHungryBeing TrueMaking A DifferenceLife And DeathAnguishNot AloneDissidents Author:Elie Wiesel
“There's an obsessive quality to it that I thought I would've grown out of by now. It's an ongoing source of shame for me.” QualitySourceShameOngoingObsessive Author:Anne Hathaway
“The toy business began to drive the [Lucasfilm] empire. It’s a shame. They make three times as much on toys as they do on films. It’s natural to make decisions that protect the toy business, but that’s not the best thing for making quality films.” FilmThreeNaturalDecisionQualityProtectShameBest ThingsEmpiresToysThree Times Author:Gary Kurtz
“The words we use for the Creator are a reflect of ourselves. If we think of God as fear and shame, we are scared and have something to be ashamed of ... But if we see love, compassion and kindness, it is because we possess these qualities.” IfsThinkingUseQualityCompassionKindnessShameScaredCreatorAshamedKindness And Compassion Author:Shams Tabrizi