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“I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.”

Thinking Self Shame Homosexual Loathing Self Loathing Cornered Morticians

“We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.”

People Ifs Self Matter Artist Individual Black Dark White Shame Glad Dark Skinned

Book:Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62

Source: Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62

“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

“When God interrupts your life, He is calling you to follow Him in a new way. By breaking into your settled pattern, He is moving you to a new place where you can make fresh discoveries of His grace. Embracing God’s call is never easy, but this is where the pursuit of a God-centered life begins, and where the shame of a self-centered life is exposed.”

Way Self Moving Life Is Easy Grace Calling Discovery Shame Patterns Pursuit Exposed New Ways Self Centered New Places Self Centeredness

Author:Colin S. Smith

“Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame -- living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and self-absorption.”

Men Self Fantasy Shame Bounds Horizon Hopelessness Absorption Self Absorption

Author:Andrew Comiskey

“When did it become something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?”

Men Made Self America Shame Ridicule Self Made Self Made Man

Author:Glenn Beck

“Self-compassion is key because when we're able to be gentle with ourselves in the midst of shame, we're more likely to reach out, connect, and experience empathy.”

Self Able Compassion Keys Empathy Shame Gentle Midst Reach Out Self Compassion

Book:Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“Post-wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-absorption without self-awareness.”

“You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.”

Way Needs Self Choices Grief Poverty Ignorance Shame Pity Better Ways Self Pity Way To Live Lynching Wallowing

Book:A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By

Source: A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By

“Be gentle and forgiving with yourself, abandon any and all shame, and refuse to engage in any self-repudiation.”

Self Self Love Shame Forgiving Refuse Gentle Abandon Self Acceptance Love Yourself Self-denial

Author:Wayne Dyer

“But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child -- a true self who is waiting.”

Children Self Age Waiting Creative Degrees Unique Abuse Shame Depth Neglect Buried True Self Rebellious Coercion Daydreaming

Book:Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

Source: Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

“Jesus is not your accuser. He’s not your prosecutor. He’s not your judge. He’s your friend and your rescuer. Like Zacchaeus, just spend time with Jesus. Don’t hide from him in shame or reject him in self-righteousness. Don’t allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him for yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.”

People Knows Self Jesus Opinion Judging Shapes Goodness Concepts Shame Rejects Righteousness End Times Spend Time Self Righteousness Prosecutor Goodness Of God Accusers

Book:Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

Source: Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“Shame--what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.”

Self Mother Happened Shame Dragons

Book:All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir

Source: All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir

“Oh Lord, give us a sense of humor with courage to manifest it forth, so that we may laugh to shame the pomps, the vanities, the sense of self-importance of the Big Fellows that the world sometimes sends among us, and who try to take our peace away.”

World Giving Trying May Self Sometimes Humor Bigs Lord Laughing Importance Shame Fellows Vanity Sense Of Humor Manifest Sense Of Self Self-importance

Author:Sean O'Casey

“The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe. The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the grieves and shames of others.”

Self Water Shame Clean Journalism Beach Journalist Novelists Grieving Shore Traits Dominant Exposure Trembling Plunge Robes Exposing Gentlemanly

Author:Janet Malcolm

“There is an important insight contained in the book of Genesis, concerning the loss of eros when the body takes over. Adam and Eve have partaken of the forbidden fruit, and obtained the ‘knowledge of good and evil’ – in other words the ability to invent for themselves the code that governs their behaviour. God walks in the garden and they hide, conscious for the first time of their bodies as objects of shame. This ‘shame of the body’ is an extraordinary feeling, and one that no animal could conceivably have. It is a recognition of the body as in some way alien – the thing that has wandered into the world of objects as though of its own accord, to become the victim of uninvited glances. Adam and Eve have become conscious that they are not only face to face, but joined in another way, as bodies, and the objectifying gaze of lust now poisons their once innocent desire. Milton’s description of this transition, from the pure eros that preceded the fall, to the polluted lust that followed it, is one of the great psychological triumphs in English literature. But how brilliantly and succinctly does the author of Genesis cover the same transition! By means of the fig leaf Adam and Eve are able to rescue each other from the worst: to ensure, however tentatively, that they can still be face to face, even if the erotic has now been privatized and attached to the private parts. In his well-known fresco of the expulsion from Paradise, Masaccio shows the distinction between the two shames – that of the body, which causes Eve to hide her sexual parts, and that of the soul, which causes Adam to hide his face. Like the girl in Goya’s picture, Adam hides the self; Eve shows the self in all its confused grief, but still protects the body – for that, she now knows, can be tainted by others’ eyes. I have dwelt on the phenomenon of the erotic because it illustrates the importance of the face, and what is conveyed by the face, in our personal encounters, even in those encounters motivated by what many think to be a desire that we share with other animals, and which arises directly from the reproductive strategies of our genes. In my view sexual desire, as we humans experience it, is an inter-personal response – one that presupposes self-consciousness in both subject and object, and which singles out its target as a free and responsible individual, able to give and withhold at will. It has its perverted forms, but it is precisely the inter-personal norm that enables us to describe them as perverted. Sexual relations between members of other species have, materially speaking, much in common with those between people. But from the intentional point of view they are entirely different. Even those creatures who mate for life, like wolves and geese, are not animated by promises, by devotion that shines in the face, or by the desire to unite with the other, who is another like me. Human sexual endeavour is morally weighted, as no animal endeavour can be. And its focus on the individual is mediated by the thought of that individual as a subject, who freely chooses, and in whose first person pespective I appear as he or she appears in mine. To put it simply, and in the language of the Torah, human sexuality belongs in the realm of the covenant.”

Self Desire Shame Eden Face

Book:Face of God: The Gifford Lectures

Source: Face of God: The Gifford Lectures

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