“Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.” IfsSelfSilenceQuietJudgmentShameTolerateCraveSecrecy Author:Brené Brown
“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.” PastHealingGrowing UpViolenceQuietAbuseShameGuiltStorytellingDirtyOur FamilyDomestic ViolenceEmpoweredMy PastLaundry 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.” YearsPastEnjoyQuietShameRealizationQuiet Life Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“Look: the trees exist; the houses we dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only we pass by it all, like a rush of air. And everything conspires to keep quiet about us, half out of shame perhaps, half out of some secret hope.” LooksHouseSecretHalfAirTreeQuietShame Author:Rainer Maria Rilke
“Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.” MenKindSoulUseFeelingsBeautifulUsedKindnessProduceOughtComfortQuietShameUpliftingAbundanceSourUnkindKind WordsMoroseBeautiful Images Author:Blaise Pascal
“My great hope for us as young women is to start being kinder to ourselves so that we can be kinder to each other. To stop shaming ourselves and other people for things we don't know the full story on - whether someone is too fat, too skinny, too short, too tall, too loud, too quiet, too anything. There's a sense that we're all ‘too’ something, and we're all not enough.” PeopleKnowsEnoughStoriesYoungHopeWomenKindnessQuietShameActressesFatsLoudTallBe KindYoung WomenToo ShortSkinnyNot Good EnoughKinderGreat HopeFatnessFat WomenShort PeopleExcessiveness Author:Emma Stone
“When death comes, we take off our clothes and gather everything we left behind: what is dark, broken, touched with shame. When Death demands we give an accounting, naked we present our lives in bundles. See how much these weigh, we tell him, refusing to deny what we have lived. Everything that is touched by light loves the light. We the stubborn-as-grass, we who reel at the taste of sap and want our spirits cleansed, will not betray the weeds, snake, or crippled mare. Never leave behind what the light shone on.” WantGivingLightSpiritLeftDarkBehindsOur LivesBrokenTasteQuietDemandClothesShameDenyNakedGrassTouchedWeedBetrayStubbornSnakesLeft BehindAccountingSapBundlesCrippledMares Book:Sacraments of Desire Source: Sacraments of Desire