You said just now, "Don't be so ashamed of yourself, because that's the root of your trouble"––with those words, you seem to have reached right into my innermost soul. What I mean is, when I visit people, I always feel that I'm really the lowest ...
DENIAL OF EMOTIONS Our culture does not handle emotions well. We like folks to be happy and fine. We learn rituals of acting happy and fine at an early age. I can remember many times telling people "I'm fine" when I felt like the world was caving in ...
The disobedience if Eve in the Genesis story has been used to justify women's inequality and suffering in many Christian traditions. Thus, what is understood as women's complicity in evil leads much traditional theological reflection on suffering to ...
The job of the politician is to speak for all people; not just for parties with vested interests, or organisations with the biggest wallets. The first people a politician should protect are those that cannot protect themselves: Those weakest and most...
...research tells us that we judge people in areas where we're vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we're doing. If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people's choices. If I feel good...
She that in life and love refuses me, In death and shame my partner she shall be.
Flaxfield died on a Friday which was a shame, because he always ate a trout for dinner on Friday, and it was his favourite.
This man had something to hide, some shame in his past, and those with a past can always be bought.
There is no shame in strategic retreat if it lets you remain strong enough to go after the enemy later.
There is no shame in being illiterate. One need only feel ashamed when one denies the opportunity to learn.
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your experiences to shed light, you may feel wrenching pain, grief, anger, or sh...
Well sue me for staring. I'd be willing to scrub away my shame on his washboard abs.
Look at the humanity - we're wild animals, even without basic template of consciousness. Shame on us..
I want to own this transition, not to simply swallow the shame of it entire. I will push for every little irony.
It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
So our narcissism has bared forth an unflattering nakedness that shames our species. But this is humanity. This is our condition.
I love my best friends, but sometimes, I want to punch them in the face. Lovingly, of course.
To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.
The pain of humanity's most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance.
Because of things like iTunes and streaming and social networking, it's destroyed music. It's destroyed the motivation to go out there and really make the best record possible. It's a shame.
