#shame

If you do something wrong, do not keep looking back and feeling ashamed of it its what is happening now that matters ↗

— Rory Leech

#inspirational #memory #now #past #wrong

Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center of things. It will have blades for lips and will not stop until it speaks the one secret thing at the heart of it all. Kneeling on the floor, unable to stop shuddering, I heard it plainly. It said, You are unlovable... ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#secrets #shame #truth #life

Tricks ripped and you tripped, tricked yourself by falling slowly. I’m the winner in this game, unable to stoop to your level of shame. Unwilling to reply to your words of ache. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#hate #heartbreak #jamie-weise #lesson-learned #love

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#ashamed #even #evolved #human #imaginative

Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride. ↗

— Arthur C. Brooks

#contrary #envy #free #free markets #incomes

No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed. ↗

— Julian Casablancas

#friend #leaves #old #old friend #unless

If I give myself a chore, for instance, when I was writing the songs for Shameless, I said to myself, Now, every day for 90 days you have to write a song; good, bad or indifferent. So that was really helpful. ↗

— Judy Collins

#chore #day #days #every #every day

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. ↗

— Confucius

#deceived #distrust #friends #more #our

And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#ashamed #big #certain #certain way #feeling

I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#figure #fraudulent #i #i think #keep