#shame

I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#feel #i #look #love #mirror

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#ashamed #hands #necessarily #private #something

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed. ↗

— Bob Dole

#cultivate #deserve #moral #name #names

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful. ↗

— Bill Pascrell

#earner #full #gas #half #just

... for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#crushed-spirit #gloom #house-of-the-seven-gables #low #men

I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#better #days #i #our time #reading

O [Roman] people be ashamed; be ashamed of your lives. Almost no cities are free of evil dens, are altogether free of impurities, except the cities in which the barbarians have begun to live... Let nobody think otherwise, the vices of our bad lives have alone conquered us... The Goths lie, but are chaste, the Franks lie, but are but are generous, the Saxons are savage in cruelty...but are admirable in chastity...what hope can there be [for the Romans] when the barbarians are more pure [than they]?" -Salvian ↗

— William J Federer

#barbarians #dual-meaning #evil #evil-men #evil-people

There is no shame in not knowing your history, the shame lies in not finding out. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#history #knowledge #shame #education

Only love can neutralize shame. ↗

— Omar Manejwala

#love #recovery #self-help #shame #inspirational

We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it. ↗

— Chögyam Trungpa

#background #confidence #cultivation #development #enlightenment