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quotes by topic Shame

" Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia. "

Barbara Ehrenreich

Love , Shame , Family , Generosity , Hate

" Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money? "

Future , Money , Generations , Shame

" Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar. "

Strength , Death , Right , Shame , Food , Wrong , Numbers , Bravery , Injury

" 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. "

People , Shame , Healing

" As soon as the Cross ceases to be to us, first of all, the place of utmost shame and contempt, we make the Cross of Christ of none effect. "

Shame , Christ , Firsts

" I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry. "

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Shame

" I'd never undetstood how Hana Could lie so often and easily. But just like anyhting else, lying becomes easier the more you do it. "

Shame , Lying

" If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitous man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of hers, may be visited by cold and sordid people upon her, and upon his children also: and, in exact proportion to his success in the world, be cast in his teeth, and made the subject of sneers against him: he may-no matter how generous and good his nature- one day repent of the connection he formed in early life; and she may have the pain and torture of knowing that he does so. "

Charles Dickens

Marriage , Shame

" I obscenity in the milk of my shame. "

Ernest Hemingway

Shame , Humor

Barbara Ehrenreich

Love , Shame , Family , Generosity , Hate

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