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Nobody escapes being wounded. We are all wounded people, whether physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually. The main question is not, 'How can we hide our wounds?' so we don't have to be embarrassed, but 'How can we put our woundedness in the service of others?' When our wounds cease to be a source of shame, and become a source of healing, we have become wounded healers.
Henri Nouwen
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Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.
John Calvin
Only those who have cultivated an honest sense of discontent with themselves, and a deep-seated humiliation for their inadequacy, fully comprehend the Christian faith.
3.
The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
Sigmund Freud
The only disgrace in self-pleasure is the disgrace of not doing it proficiently.
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India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
India will have to hang her head in mortification if even one person is labeled as untouchable.
5.
To ask may be but a moment's shame, not to ask and remain ignorant is a lifelong shame.
Kano Jigoro
Inquire now and avoid a lifetime's regret.
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Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.
Bell Hooks
Condemnation is one of the strongest instruments of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because condemnation produces anguish and anguish often induces immobility.
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For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German.
Wilhelm II
I am embarrassed to be German.
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Survival is your strength not your shame.
T. S. Eliot
Endurance is your fortitude not your disgrace.
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When secularization has had its full sway, it will leave a generation devoid of shame. And if you show me a generation that lacks shame, I will show you a generation that is monstrous in its appetite... never satisfied.
Ravi Zacharias
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Ain't that a shame how they f-ck up ya name.
Lil Boosie
12.
I don’t have any problem doing anything. The secret is I have no shame.
Dakota Johnson
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There's no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.
Robin Williams
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It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else.
Jennifer Lopez
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The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?
Gilles Deleuze
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Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.
Osamu Dazai
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If you are insulted, if you are accused, if they gossip about you, don't say anything bad. Don't be the one who sees the shame, be the one who corrects it.
Shams Tabrizi
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To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a source of pride.
George Soros
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
Edgar Allan Poe
20.
Study carefully,
the character of the one you recommend,
lest their misconduct bring you shame.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
22.
If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.
Tenzing Norgay
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If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive me twice shame on me because I have learnt my lessons and you have deceive me and if you deceive me for the third time shame on me because am a compound fool.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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The vanished lives of all are filled with many shames. Therefore do not judge.
Sri Yukteswar Giri
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Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it - it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy... When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.
Brené Brown
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One of the few downsides to being awakened is that we no longer require sleep; therefore we also no longer dream. It's a shame, because if I could dream, I know I'd dream about you.
Richelle Mead
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The enemy works overtime to keep us in shame. He knows if he can keep us in shame, he can minimize our intimacy with God.
Mike Bickle
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Scars on the back are a swordsman’s shame.
Zoro
31.
You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
Alice Munro
32.
Blowfish, did you say?" "Ah, no. Blofis, actually." "Oh, I see," Poseidon said. "A shame. I quite like blowfish.
Rick Riordan
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Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.
Brené Brown
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I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.
Alison Bechdel
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Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.
Jose Rizal
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There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.
William Langland
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All violence is an attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.
James Gilligan
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I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.
Kathryn Lasky
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The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
William Golding
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You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard.
Euripides
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Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.
John F. Kennedy
48.
Once again, the hopeless cowardly Americans were back to repeat their cowardly act hiding behind a technological advance that God, most gracious, wanted it to be their curse and cause for shame.
Saddam Hussein
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Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
Denis Diderot