70 quotes found
“I'm dying from about ninety-nine kinds of shame”
“You're weak because you're afraid of people seeing your weakness. You're letting shame decide who you are.”
“Who exactly am I saving from shame, when I’ll live and die in every possible way?”
“When we are experience shame we are often thrown into crisis mode...In this mode, the neocortex is bypassed and our acess to advanced, rational, calm thinking and processing of emotion all but disa...”
“The NSA is looking for terrorists. They’re not getting psychosexual pleasure out of their schadenfreude about you.”—”
“There is a quiet transformation happening that is moving us from 'turning on each other' to 'turning toward each other.' Without question, that transformation will require shame resilience. If we'r...”
“That was a moment where something clarified about shame for me: it’s not just something negative but some kind of arrow, it’s pointing at something, some confusing blend of fear and desire. There w...”
“Knowing what I do now, I think about shame and worthiness in this way: 'It's the album, not the picture.' If you imagine opening up a photo album, and many of the pages are full eight-by-ten photos...”
“Shame is an ornament to the young a disgrace to the old.”
“I count him lost who is lost to shame.”
