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“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”

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

“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.”

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Author:Willard Gaylin

“I believe one of our souls' major purposes is to know, love, and express our authentic selves. To live the life and be the person we were created to be. However, our true selves only emerge when it's safe to do so. Self-condemnation, shame, and guilt send your true nature into hiding. It's only in the safety of gentle curiosity, encouragement, and self-love that your soul can bloom as it was created to do.”

“The distinction between shame and guilt is very important, since these two emotions may tear a person in opposite directions. The wish to relieve guilt may motivate a confession, but the wish to avoid the humiliation of shame may prevent it.”

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Author:Paul Ekman

“We live in a society where we're not taught how to deal with our weaknesses and frailties as human beings. We're not taught how to speak to our difficulties and challenges. We're taught the Pythagorean theorem and chemistry and biology and history. We're not taught anger management. We're not taught dissolution of fear and how to process shame and guilt. I've never in my life ever used the Pythagorean theorem!”

“There are so many more productive things to do than sit around feeling shame and guilt. Beyond touching on shame and guilt in a perfunctory manner, I wouldn't bother with that at all.”

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Author:Antony Hegarty

“Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame and guilt about the human body.”

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Author:Lee Salk

“Despite their differences, pride, shame, and guilt all activate similar neural circuits, including the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, amygdala, insula, and the nucleus accumbens. Interestingly, pride is the most powerful of these emotions at triggering activity in these regions - except in the nucleus accumbens, where guilt and shame win out. This explains why it can be so appealing to heap guilt and shame on ourselves - they're activating the brain's reward center.”

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Author:David D. Burns

“It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.”

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Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont

“Work on psychological blocks like shame and guilt - they falsely color your reality.”

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Book:Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, andSpiritual Well-Being

Source: Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, andSpiritual Well-Being

“That's part of what I touch on in my [UN] speech - when assaults happen on women and girls in these fragile countries, in these places of crisis, there isn't the psychosocial support. There aren't counseling services. It's not in a lot of cultures to explicitly talk about things that maybe have happened to the body. So, repression of emotion, and shame, and guilt is something that really needs to be handled in humanitarian crises.”

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Author:Natalie Dormer

“Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.”

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Book:The works of Jonathan Swift: containing interesting and valuable papers, not hitherto published ; with a memoir of the author

Source: The works of Jonathan Swift: containing interesting and valuable papers, not hitherto published ; with a memoir of the author

“never feel guilty about anything shame and guilt are a waste of time just do what you do-- and deal with it”

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Book:The Road of the Dead

Source: The Road of the Dead

“What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the Jews? We should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we may not compare the incomparable, we may not inquire because to inquire is to make the horrors an object of discussion, even if the horrors themselves are not questioned, instead of accepting them as something in the face of which we can only fall silent in revulsion, shame and guilt. Should we only fall silent in revulsion, shame and guilt? To what purpose?”

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Book:The Reader

Source: The Reader

“The guilty think all talk is of themselves.”

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Book:The Canterbury tales

Source: The Canterbury tales

“Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.”

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Book:The works of D. Jonathan Swift ...: To which is prefixed, the doctor's life, with remarks on his writings, from the Earl of Orrery and others, not to be found in any former edition of his works.Dublin printed

Source: The works of D. Jonathan Swift ...: To which is prefixed, the doctor's life, with remarks on his writings, from the Earl of Orrery and others, not to be found in any former edition of his works.Dublin printed

“Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.”

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Book:The Poetical Works of William Cowper

Source: The Poetical Works of William Cowper

“Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.”

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Author:Brené Brown

“If you don't enjoy your life, sorrow, sadness, suffering, fear, shame and guilt will.”

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Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.”

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Author:Lewis B. Smedes