#guilt

When psychologists Catherine Caldwell-Harris and Ayse Ayçiçegi compared U.S. and Turkish samples, they found that having "an orientation inconsistent with societal values" is a risk factor for poor mental health. The findings support what the researchers call the personality-culture clash hypothesis: "Psychological adjustment depends on the degree of match between personality and the values of surrounding society." To the extent that introverts feel the need to explain, apologize, or feel guilty about what works best for them, they feel alienated not only from society but from themselves. ↗

— Laurie Helgoe

#depression #guilt #introversion #psychology #shame

Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are. ↗

— Rosamund Lupton

#mental-health #self-assessment #self-esteem #mental-health

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house. ↗

— Aeschylus

#god #guilt #house #implants #mortal

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#been #bride #flower #guilty #had

More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent. ↗

— Anthony Anderson

#before #guilty #innocent #more #oftentimes

Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious. ↗

— Dario Argento

#away #back #changing #come #guilty

I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know what free time is, because I don't have something to measure it against. ↗

— Simon Armitage

#against #because #even #feel #free

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. ↗

— Jane Austen

#guilt #misery #other #pens

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. ↗

— John Adams

#guilt #unnecessary #war

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections. ↗

— Samuel Adams

#before #betraying #connections #country #feeling