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“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”

Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

“I like owls. I admire their intransigent spirit. I have respected them deeply ever since I met a baby owl in a wood, when it fell over dead, apparently from sheer temper, because I dared to approach it. It defied me first, and then died. I have never forgotten the horror and shame I experienced when that soft fluffy thing (towards which I had nothing but the most humanitarian motives) fell dead from rage at my feet.”

Firsts Spirit Feet Baby Mets Horror Approach Died Shame Forgotten Woods Humanitarian Rage Admire Motive Temper Sheer Owl Fluffy

Author:Vita Sackville-West

“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

“Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without makeup. I often wonder how they feel about themselves at night when they are climbing into bed with intimate partners. Are they overwhelmed with secret shame that someone sees them as they really are? Or do they sleep with rage that who they really are can be celebrated or cared for only in secret?”

Thinking Knows Feels Night Sleep Secret Wonder Bed Shame Rage Partners Intimate Makeup Climbing Overwhelmed Without Makeup

Author:Bell Hooks

“There is a certain kind of pain that can change you. Even the strongest sword, when placed in a raging fire, will soften and bend and change its form... Trust me on this one. I know this from personal experience. I hope that you never will, but, since you're a person, and therefore prone to making horrible, soul-splitting mistakes, you probably will one day know what this kind of guilt and shame feels like. And when that time comes, I hope you have the strength...to take advantage of the fire and reshape your own sword.”

Knows Feels Kind Persons Soul Pain Form Certain Mistake Fire One Day Advantage Shame Guilt Rage Horrible Strongest Trust Me Personal Experiences Splitting

Author:Adam Gidwitz

“Sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage.”

Sometimes Powerful Shame Rage Engines

Book:Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone

Source: Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone

“Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.”

Shame Guilt Rage Guilty

Author:Ben Jonson

“My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!”

Stills Sorrow Shame Charity Rage Outrage

Book:William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

Source: William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

“The calm. If there is God or something Higher for me it is this. The calm. If there is something that will hold me when I need to hold it is this the calm. There is no anger, no rage, no Fury. There is no want, no need, no desire. There is no hatred no shame no regret. There is no grief, no sadness, no depression. There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.”

Ifs Want Needs Desire Grief Sadness Regret Broken Higher Hatred Shame Calm Rage No Fear Fury No Regrets Hold Me No Anger Live Without Fear

Book:A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.”

Sometimes Powerful Hot Shame Rage Engines Furnaces

Book:Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone

Source: Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone

“Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn’t mean time heals. Time cures a secret in its brine, keeping it and finally, paradoxically, destroying it. Nothing is left in that salt solution but the pain or rage, the biting shame that lodged it there. Even they are diluted or denied.”

Mean Pain Left Secret Solutions Shame Rage Heal Cures Destroying Denied Salt Biting Old Saying Time Heals

Author:Patricia Hampl

“At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.”

Love Humans Hate Human Beings Teach And Love Shame Rage Generosity Nasty Finest

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.”

Knows Happens Ought Shame Rage Ashamed

Author:Erich Maria Remarque

“Sisters of the torn shirts. Sisters of the chase around the desk, casting couch, hotel room, file cabinet. Sisters dragging shattered dreams, bruised hopes, ambitions abandoned in the dirt. Sisters fishing one by one in the lake of shame. Hooks baited with fear always come back empty. Truth dawns slow when you've been beaten and lied to, but it burns hard and bright once it wakes. Sisters, drop everything. Walk away from the lake, leaning on each other's shoulders when you need the support. Feel the contractions of another truth ready to be born. Shame turned inside out is rage.”

Truth Lies Shame Rage Assault Sexual Violence

Book:Shout

Source: Shout