#sham

I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays. But they are murdered children all the same. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#patriotism #shame #war #men

The more I work with Nature and totemism, the more church is everywhere. ↗

— S. Kelley Harrell

#shamanism #totemism #nature

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#shambhala #teacher

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#heartfelt #shame #sorrow #tears #need

We need never be ashamed of our tears. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#shame #sorrow #tears #need

I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see. ↗

— Kathryn Lasky

#journey

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest ↗

— William Faulkner

#honesty #yourself #honesty

Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ? ↗

— Anne Rice

#shame #cruelty

There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again. ↗

— George W. Bush

#dumb #foolishness #fools #shame

Shame is a soul eating emotion. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#shame #shame