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• Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

  Seneca the Younger

  Law, Doe, May

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

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• Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Family

  Norman Vincent Peale, Marjorie Holmes, Arthur Gordon, Will Rogers (1995). “To father, with love: wisdom from Guideposts”, Dimensions for Living

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• I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Shy, Want, Used

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.

  Plautus

  Men, Guilt, Lost

  "Bacchides". Play by Plautus,

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• Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.

  Anais Nin

  Lying, About Yourself

  "Why Men Fall Out of Love : The Secrets They Don't Tell" by Michael French, (p. 142), 2005.

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• O shame, where is thy blush?

  William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare (2003). “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

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• If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes no costly demands and which fails to distinguish between natural and Christian existence, then we cannot help regarding the cross as an ordinary everyday calamity, as one of the trials and tribulations of life. We have then forgotten that the cross means rejection and shame as well as suffering .

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Uplifting, Christian, Mean

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• I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Done, Feels, Wrong Things

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• We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Real, Atmosphere, Skins

  Man and Superman (1903) act 1

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• I count him lost, who is lost to shame.

  Plautus

  Lost

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 702, Bacchides, III. 3. 80, 1922.

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• 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.

  Willard Gaylin

  Quality, Guilt, Essentials

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• The only shame is to have none.

  Blaise Pascal

  Guilt

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.74, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Say the truth and shame the devil.

  Hugh Latimer

  Devil

  Hugh Latimer, George Elwes Corrie (1844). “Sermons: Edited for the Parker Society”, p.506

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• Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

  Bell Hooks

  Produce, Trauma, Paralysis

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• I think half of what a trainer does is make you feel shame if you dont show up.

  Stephen Moyer

  Thinking, Doe, Half

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• Asking for help with shame says:
  You have the power over me.
  Asking with condescension says:
  I have the power over you.
  But asking for help with gratitude says:
  We have the power to help each other.

  Amanda Palmer

  Gratitude, Asking For Help, Over You

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• I also know how to ask people for money and I have no shame about doing that.

  Roma Downey

  People, Know How, Knows

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• Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Character, Study, Misconduct

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• My great hope for us as young women is to start being kinder to ourselves so that we can be kinder to each other. To stop shaming ourselves and other people for things we don't know the full story on - whether someone is too fat, too skinny, too short, too tall, too loud, too quiet, too anything. There's a sense that we're all ‘too’ something, and we're all not enough.

  Emma Stone

  Hope, Kindness, Women

  "The Really Amazing Spider-Man 2 Star Emma Stone On Tuning Out The Haters And Owning Who You Are". Interview with Brittany Burke, www.seventeen.com. May 2, 2014.

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

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Evil, Guilt

  Jonathan Swift (1850). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ; with a Memoir of the Author”, p.307

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• Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

  William Cowper

  Inspirational, Selfish, War

  William Cowper (1845). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper”, p.1

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• There's no shame in being crazy.

  Jason Mraz

  Crazy, Being Crazy

  Song: A Beautiful Mess, 2008

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• Nothing is truly infamous, but what is wicked; and therefore shame can never disturb an innocent and virtuous mind.

  Thomas Sherlock

  Mind, Wicked, Infamous

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• When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the arising of all things: sorrows, loneliness, shame, desire, regret, frustration, happiness.

  Jack Kornfield

  Regret, Loneliness, Frustration

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• Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.

  Og Mandino

  Failure, Trying, Failing

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.27, Bantam

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