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• Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

  Alan Cohen

  Punishing Yourself

  Alan Cohen (2015). “A Course in Miracles Made Easy: Mastering the Journey from Fear to Love”, p.53, Hay House, Inc

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• Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

  Horace

  Punishment, Companion

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• Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.

  Lillian Hellman

  Thinking, Excuse

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• Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

  Plautus

  Men, Mind, Conscious

  "Mostellaria". Play by Plautus, Act III. 1. 13,

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• When we hold onto the negative in ourselves it comes with endless guilt. We hold onto a lifetime of floating visions and regrets about what we should have done or should have become. Conscience recognizes wrong and tries to atone. But guilt turns into resentment. Conscience brings us closer to each other; guilt drives us apart. Create a new feeling. Every time guilt settles in your stomach, write "I forgive" on a piece of paper. Send it up the chimney, tear it up and flush it, put it in the garbage. Don't eat it.

  Jennifer James

  Regret, Writing, Should Have

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.

  Thomas Paine

  Poison, Care, Action

  Thomas Paine (1922). “Paine's Complete Works ...”

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• Why do we hold onto negativity? For some reason, we believe that others are affected by our experience of remaining upset, hurt or angry. Holding on to pain, anger, guilt or shame is the glue that binds us to the situation we want to escape.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Hurt, Pain, Believe

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Dec 06, 2016

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• True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

  R. D. Laing

  People, Assuming, Obligation

  'Self and Others' (1961) ch. 10

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• A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.

  William Shakespeare

  Wicked, Goblin, Frenzy

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Price (1839). “The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare: Comprising Moral Philosophy, Delineations of Character, Paintings of Nature and the Passions, Seven Hundred Aphorisms, and Miscellaneous Pieces : with Select and Original Notes, and Scriptural References ...”, p.30

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• Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Despair, Guilty

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• We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.

  Ayn Rand

  Doctrine, Life Is, Strikes

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.954, Penguin

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• Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.

  Peter McWilliams

  Anger, Resentment, Anger Resentment

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.

  Seneca the Younger

  Faces, Betray, Fearful

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 345-46, Thyestes, CCCXXX, 1922.

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• He that commits a sin shall find the pressing guilt lie heavy on his mind.

  Thomas Creech

  Lying, Mind, Sin

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• Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.

  Audre Lorde

  Action, Response, Defensiveness

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.130, Crossing Press

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, President, Prison

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1853). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.399

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• Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Deeds, Committed, Hesitation

  "De Officiis (On Duties)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book III, Chapter 8), 44 BC.

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• People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being punished. That's not the idea at all.

  Pema Chodron

  Mean, Ideas, People

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• Our life is so short that every time I see my children, I enjoy them as much as I can. Whenever I can, I enjoy my beloved, my family, my friends, my apprentices. But mainly I enjoy myself, because I am with myself all the time. Why should I spend my precious time with myself judging myself, rejecting myself, creating guilt and shame? Why should I push myself to be angry or jealous? If I don't feel good emotionally, I find out what is causing it and I fix it. Then I can recover my happiness and keep going with my story.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Family, Happiness, Friends

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• I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Lady Macbeth, Wade

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 136

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• Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.

  Audre Lorde

  Communication, Ignorance, Names

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.130, Crossing Press

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• My conscience is crosswired with my sweat glands, but there's a short in the system and I break out over things I didn't do, which only makes me look more suspect.

  David Sedaris

  Sweat, Break Out, Looks

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• I always felt guilty. My whole life.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Whole Life, Felt, Guilty

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt : fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other.

  E. M. Forster

  Imagination, Disease, Fancy

  E. M. Forster (1987). “Commonplace Book”, p.76, Stanford University Press

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• I accept that all photography is voyeuristic and exploitative, and obviously I live with my own guilt and conscience. It's part of the test and I don't have a problem with it.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Tests, Problem

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