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“Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.”

World Heart May Has Beens Virtue Sorrow Shame Terror Driven Secrecy

Book:The Time of Your Life

Source: The Time of Your Life

“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.”

Ifs Self Silence Quiet Judgment Shame Tolerate Crave Secrecy

Author:Brené Brown

“Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed. Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.”

Source: Famous American plays of the 1920s and the 1930s

“People grow up learning to be silent about their sexuality, so where are they going to learn to talk about it when they are in a relationship? Shame, guilt, ignorance, reservation, prudishness, all kinds of different cultural systems and social stereotypes shroud sexuality in secrecy and in silence. And there's the romantic notion. "If I say in the beginning, that I am missing something, you are instantly going to think that means you are not enough."”

People Thinking Kind Mean Different Enough Silence Growing Up Missing Ignorance Shame Guilt Silent Sexuality All Kinds Stereotype Secrecy

Author:Esther Perel

“A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.”

Enough Shame Burden Mental Illness Secrecy Diagnosis

Author:Jane Pauley

“Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame.”

Grief Silence Shame Silence Is Secrecy Majesty

Author:Melina Marchetta

“Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it - it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy... When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.”

Stories Hate Shame Reach Out Secrecy

Author:Brené Brown

“The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity.”

“If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.”

Ifs Needs Three Grows Silence Amount Judgment Empathy Shame Ingredients Dishes Secrecy

Author:Brené Brown

“Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or heels, the measurement of mass and motion, the calibration of brutal blows, the counting of supplies; and spiritual knowing, invisibly felt by the inside self, who is but a fought-over field of distraction, a stage where we recite the monotonous monologue that is our life, a knowing governed by internal tides, by intimations, motives, resolutions, by temptations, secrecy, shame, and pride.”

Source: Finding a Form: Essays

“For nearly 2,000 years of Christian civilization, taking the life of an unborn child was regarded as a vile and heinous moral offense which degraded humanity. . . . Abortions to avoid illegitimate births, or otherwise for convenience, were performed with a secrecy that was as much the mark of the shame attaching to the deed as a consequence of its illegality.”

Life Years Children Christian Humanity Moral Birth Civilization Consequence Mark Shame Deeds Abortion Offense Secrecy Convenience Unborn Unborn Child

Author:Ronald Butt

“If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more fundamental than the ending of the fertile period of a woman's life, because it strikes at the core of what it is to be a man.”

Ifs Men Periods Shame Fundamentals Silent Males Strikes Core Denial Passages Secrecy Be A Man Fertile Unspeakable Menopause

Author:Gail Sheehy

“A culture of a shame and secrets is bound to hide its dirty laundry and continue the same offences for generations. You can't healthfully and successfully sweep your dysfunctions under the carpet and pretend nothing has happened. Whether it's your family culture, or your religious culture, or both, this is a great way to grow deep roots of poison and toxic dysfunction in all of your close relationships. It's a great way to destroy yourself and your loved ones. End the culture of secrecy. End the follied pride that seeks to cover up its shame rather than admit it. Face your offenses head on with a desire to fix them and heal.”

Truth Healing Pride Lies Abuse Shame Addiction Vulnerability Secrecy Toxicity

Author:Jennifer DeLucy