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“There are no words and there is no singing, but the music has a voice. It is an old voice and a deep voice, like the stump of a sweet cigar or a shoe with a hole. It is a voice that has lived and lives, with sorrow and shame, ecstasy and bliss, joy and pain, redemption and damnation. It is a voice with love and without love. I like the voice, and though I can't talk to it, I like the way it talks to me. It says it is all the same, Young Man. Take it and let it be.”

Men Way I Can Pain Young Joy Voice Sweet Sorrow Singing Shame Shoes Holes Redemption Bliss Young Man Ecstasy Without Love Talk To Me Cigar Damnation Stumps Joy And Pain

Book:A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.”

“When an almond tree became covered with blossoms in the heart of winter, all the trees around it began to jeer. 'What vanity,' they screamed, 'what insolence! Just think, it believes it can bring spring in this way!' The flowers of the almond tree blushed for shame. 'Forgive me, my sisters,' said the tree. 'I swear I did not want to blossom, but suddenly I felt a warm springtime breeze in my heart.”

Thinking Way Want Believe Heart Said Felt Tree Flower My Heart Spring Shame Forgiving Winter Warm Vanity Covered My Sister Swear Breeze Springtime Forgive Me Insolence Almonds

Author:Nikos Kazantzakis

“The quickest way to create a boy or man who lacks compassion is to judge and shame his feelings.”

Men Way Feelings Compassion Boys Judging Shame

Author:Michael Gurian

“He leant his two elbows on his knees, and his chin on his hands and remained rapt in dumb meditation. On my inquiring the subject of his thoughts, he answered gravely 'I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!' 'For shame, Heathcliff!' said I. 'It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.' 'No, God won’t have the satisfaction that I shall,' he returned. 'I only wish I knew the best way! Let me alone, and I'll plan it out: while I'm thinking of that I don't feel pain.”

Source: Wuthering Heights

“There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make slaves of us all, as you will find when you try your experiment.”

Knows World Way Trying Littles Said Real Seems Law Liberty Opinion Shame Slave Bounds Experiments Bitter Customs Despise Public Opinion Tempest

Author:Louisa May Alcott

“But it is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby that wails beneath my window one day and does not wail the next, that brings the worst shame to me, the greatest indifference to annihilation. I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering. I ought never to have taken my lantern to see what was going on in the hut by the granary. On the other hand, there was no way, once I had picked up the lantern, for me to put it down again. The knot loops in upon itself; I cannot find the end.”

Knows Way Doe Has Beens Ends Hands Seems Next Taken Too Much Worst Baby Ought One Day Window Shame Indifference Dependent Knots Annihilation Loops Recovering Huts Lanterns

Book:Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel

Source: Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel

“I knew it. In this way, Peeta's not hard to predict. While I was wallowing around on the floor of that cellar, thinking only of myself, he was here, thinking of me. Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel.”

Thinking Way Feels Hard Enough Strong Shame Strong Enough Peeta Cellars Wallowing

Book:Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

“Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can see them--from the moment when they will be read by other people, a moment which I feel will never come. By then I could have had an accident or died; a war or a revolution could have broken out. This delay makes it possible for me to write today, in the same way I used to lie in the scorching sun for a whole day at sixteen, or make love wihout contraceptives at twenty: without thinking about the consequences”

Source: Simple Passion

“You think you are alive because you breathe air? Shame on you, that you are alive in such a limited way. Don't be without Love, so you won't feel dead. Die in Love and stay alive forever.”

Thinking Way Feels Dies Forever Alive Air Shame Breathe Without Love Staying Alive Shame On You

Author:Rumi

“It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of peace skimmed over whenever they occurred. (Our teachers deplored this and added extra units about social history and protest movements, but that was still the message of the books.)”

“Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more completely. Perhaps the best way to phrase it is to say that meditation showed me that the other side of anxiety is desire. They exist in relationship to each other, not independently.”

World Way Desire Felt Sides Meditation Anxiety Let Me Shame Response Flesh Best Way Confusion Phrases Anxious

Book:Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught

Source: Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught

“This concept could easily have gone awry. Stories about love tend to go that way sometimes. They wander into the realm of cheese and never return, which I think is a shame, because there is a way to write about romantic love without breaking out the Velveeta.”

Thinking Way Writing Sometimes Stories Gone Return Concepts Shame Wander Realms Romantic Love Cheese

Author:Veronica Roth

“"I am Sa’kagé a lord of shadows. I claim the shadows that the Shadow may not." [...] "I am the strong arm of deliverance. I am Shadowstrider. I am the Scales of Justice. I am He-Who-Guards-Unseen. I am Shadowslayer. I am Nameless." [...] "The coranti shall not go unpunished." [...] "My way is hard but I serve unbroken. In ignobility, nobility. In shame, honor. In darkness, light. I will do justice and love mercy."”

“I would never normally approach a woman in this way, but I couldn't help but notice that you have the eyes of a lady I was once desperately in love with. " "What a shame to love only once," she said, showing her white teeth in a wicked smile. "I've heard some men can manage twice or even more." I ignored her gibe. "I am only a fool once. Never will I love again.”

Men Way Said Helping Eye White Heard Fool Approach Shame Teeth Manage Wicked Ignored Love Again White Teeth

Book:The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two

Source: The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two

“This, she thought, isn’t just for today. It’s for everything. For the heartache that still felt like a punch in the gut each time it struck, fresh as new, at unpredictable moments; for the smiling lies and the mental images she couldn’t shake; for the shame of having been so naive. For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.”

Source: Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy

“We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.”

Way Littles Lasts Dies Courses Despair Shame Humiliation

Author:Clive Barker

“The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.”

Knows Way Feels Know How Shame Ignorant Shameless Handmaids Tale

Book:The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue of having to have them in order to lose them, the sadness of having had them, the intellectual shame of having had them knowing that they would have to end this way.”

Way Ends Order Loses Loss Knowing Sadness Intellectual Illusion Shame Tired Uselessness Book Of Disquiet

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance at community; interrupt kids with bells and horns all the time and they will learn that nothing is important or worth finishing; ridicule them and they will retreat from human association; shame them and they will find a hundred ways to get even. The habits taught in large-scale organizations are deadly.”

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness,all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing.”

Way War Hard Eye Suffering Steps Poverty Shame Killing Indifference Contempt Execution Riot Disrespect Every Step

Author:Hermann Hesse

“Feelings and stories of unworthiness and shame are perhaps the most binding element in the trance of fear. When we believe something is wrong with us, we are convinced we are in danger. Our shame fuels ongoing fear, and our fear fuels more shame. The very fact that we feel fear seems to prove that we are broken or incapable. When we are trapped in trance, being fearful and bad seem to define who we are. The anxiety in our body, the stories, the ways we make excuses, withdraw or lash out—these become to us the self that is most real.”

Way Feels Believe Real Self Facts Stories Feelings Body Seems Danger Broken Prove Elements Anxiety Shame Excuse Convinced Who We Are Fuel Fearful Trapped Incapable Ongoing Binding Lashes Trance

Author:Tara Brach

“Homophobia and the closet are allies. Like an unhealthy co-dependent relationship they need each other to survive. One plays the victim living in fear and shame while the other plays the persecutor policing what is ‘normal’. The only way to dismantle homophobia is for every gay man and lesbian in the world to come out and live authentic lives. Once they realise how normal we are and see themselves in us….the controversy is over.”

Men World Way Needs Play Gay Normal Shame Victim Dependent Realising Allies Closets Controversy Unhealthy Homophobia Gay Men Authentic Life Living In Fear

Author:Anthony Venn-Brown

“Do you know what constitutes a great poet? He is a person without shame, incapable of blushing. Ordinary fools have moments when they go off by themselves and blush with shame; not so the great poet.... If you really have to quote someone, quote a geographer; that way you won't give yourself away. (p 44)”

Ifs Knows Way Giving Persons Moments Poet Fool Ordinary Shame Do You Know Incapable Great Poet Blushing Geographers

Book:Mysteries

Source: Mysteries

“If we are going to find our way out of shame and back to each other, vulnerability is the path and courage is the light. To set down those lists of *what we're supposed to be* is brave. To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly.”

Ifs Way Real Light Process Support Path Becoming Shame Brave Lists Supposed To Be Vulnerability Daring Daring Greatly Becoming Real

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

“I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way of support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone.”

Ifs Thinking Way Eye Support Rights Gay Equal Shame Good Times Grandchildren Equal Rights Gay Marriage Anticipate Bans Marriage Equality Against Gay Marriage

Author:Sean Penn

“It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you're being knocked down, 'Why am I being knocked down?' If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.”

People Ifs Way Persons Important Motivational Motivation Asks Inspiring Shame Important Things Knocked Down There Is Hope

Book:Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame.”

Knows Way Should Persons Light Deals Forever Arms Criticism Shame Ridiculous Folly Hiding Superstitions Polite Superstitious Cripples Infamous

Author:H. L. Mencken

“War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be separated from one another. When one comes to an end, the other will end also and one cannot end without the other. The fact that no war has broken out in Europe for fifty years is connected in some mysterious way with the fact that for fifty years no new Picasso has appeared either.”

Way Years Two War Ends Facts Culture Fighting Heaven Hell Broken Glory Europe Shame Connected Mysterious Fifty Heaven And Hell No War Mysterious Ways

Author:Milan Kundera

“The simple person lives the way he breathes, with no more effort or glory, with no more affectation and without shame Simplicity is freedom, buoyancy, transparency. As simple as the air, as free as the air The simple person does not take himself too seriously or too tragicallyHe has nothing to prove, since he has no appearances to keep up, and nothing to seek, since everything is before him. What is more simple than simplicity? What is lighter? It is the virtue of wise men and the wisdom of saints.”

Men Way Persons Doe Simple Effort Virtue Wise Air Prove Glory Shame Simplicity Saint Appearance Breathe Transparency Lighters Buoyancy Simple Person

Author:Andre Comte-Sponville

“I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.”

Knows Way Next Memories Return Husband Shame Saved My Husband Next Day Blake

Author:Amy Winehouse

“The difference between me and Bono is that he's quite happy to go and flatter people to get what he wants and he's very good at it, but I just can't do it. I'd probably end up punching them in the face rather than shaking their hand, so it's best that I stay out of their way. I can't engage with that level of bullshit. Which is a shame, really, and in a way it would help if I could, but I just can't. I admire the fact that Bono can, and can walk away from it smelling of roses.”

People Ifs Way Want I Can Ends Facts Helping Hands Faces Differences Walks Levels Shame Rose Very Good Admire If I Could Bullshit Shaking Punching

Author:Thom Yorke

“It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.”

People Way Shame Albums Comes And Goes

Author:Marc Almond

“I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago communist raised communist educated communist nurtured subhuman mongrel like the ACORN community organizer gangster Barack Hussein Obama to weasel his way into the top office of authority in the United States of America.”

“No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no one will ever look at the earth in the same way. Man had to free himself from earth to perceive both its diminutive place in a solar system and its inestimable value as a life -fostering planet. As earthmen, we may have taken another step into adulthood. We can see our planet earth with detachment, with tenderness, with some shame and pity, but at last also with love.”

“One of our troubles is we are not willing to humble ourselves. We are not willing to give up our opinions as to how things should be done. We want a revival to come just in our way. You never saw two revivals come just alike. We must let them come in God's way. People are ashamed to admit they need a revival. If you are not willing to take the shame on yourself, you then let it remain on Jesus Christ. You must bear the reproach of your sinful state of indifference, or the cause of our Master must bear it.”

People Ifs Way Want Needs Giving Should Two States Done Jesus Causes Christ Opinion Saws Trouble Willing Masters Bears Giving Up Jesus Christ Shame Humble Indifference Ashamed Revival Reproach

Author:Mordecai Ham

“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

“The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.”

Way Country Support Shame Library Neglect

Author:Matthew Lesko

“Shame derives its power from being unspeakable...If we speak shame, it begins to wither. Just the way exposure to light was deadly for the gremlins, language and story bring light to shame and destroy it.”

Ifs Way Stories Light Speak Language Empathy Shame Exposure Unspeakable Gremlins

Author:Brené Brown

“Dogs act exactly the way we would act if we had no shame.”

Ifs Way Funny Dog Shame My Dog

Book:Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye

Source: Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye

“When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent current of low-level shame, you move forward by using the creative possibilities of this moment, your current situation.”

Way Moments Feelings Moving Levels Situation Creative Possibility Lows Shame Currents Excuse Moving Forward Lazy Retreat Persistent Covering Refining Low Level Making Excuses Current Situation

Author:Epictetus

“By the way, two wars are in an endless state of sorrow. Egypt about burned to the ground and all you people care about is my bullshit... Pathetic. Shame, shame shame”

People Way Two War States Care Sorrow Shame Endless Burned Bullshit Egypt Pathetic

Author:Charlie Sheen

“Being #‎ IGNORANT is not so much a SHAME, as being UNWILLING to LEARN to do things THE #‎ RIGHT WAY.”

Way Ignorance Shame Ignorant Right Way Unwilling Poor Richard Exam Lifelong Learner Willful Ignorance Stupidity And Ignorance Knowledge And Ignorance Being Ignorant Ignorance Is Not Bliss Funny Exam

Author:Shiv Khera

“Love has a way of showing you to yourself, whether through satisfaction or humiliation. It hovers over you like a magnifying glass you cannot escape, intensifying the slightest feelings of either delight or shame. No other experience makes so obvious the realities of both heaven and hell.”

“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

“I feel certain God loves me just the way I am, and I have a huge sense of calling to communicate that to young people. The Church's teaching was the reason that I lived in so much shame and isolation and pain for all those years. But rather than abandon it and say it's broken, I want to be part of the change.”

People Way Want Feels Years Reason Pain Young Certain Church Teaching Huge Broken Calling Shame Communicate God Love Isolation Abandon God Loves Me

Author:Vicky Beeching

“He knew it was possible for shame to be nursed and doctored like an illness, if you wanted to keep it separate from the rest of your life, but that didn't mean there'd be any way to keep from knowing it was there.”

Ifs Way Mean Wanted Knowing Shame Illness Nurse Rest Of Your Life

Author:Richard Yates

“You see it is important to understand how damaged people don't always know how to say yes, or to choose the big thing, even when it is right in front of them. It's a shame we carry. The shame of wanting something good. The shame of feeling something good. The shame of not believing we deserve to stand in the same room in the same way as all those we admire. Big red As on our chests.”

People Knows Way Believe Important Feelings Bigs Rooms Know How Fronts Deserve Red Shame Admire Chests Big Things

Book:The Chronology of Water: A Memoir

Source: The Chronology of Water: A Memoir

“If we want to live and love with our whole hearts, and if we want to engage with the world from a place of worthiness, we have to talk about the things that get in the way- especially shame, fear and vulnerability”

Ifs World Way Want Heart Whole And Love Shame Vulnerability Worthiness Live And Love

Book:The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

“I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me - and it was such a backhanded compliment - they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'”

People Way Beautiful Faces Shame Heavy Necks Compliment Questionable Beautiful Face Backhanded Compliments

Author:Kate Winslet

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