Shame

"For a time I'd thought of that part of my life as wrong. But our earlier lives aren't wrong, they are just preconstruction, that's all. Our lives are meant to unfold, to evolve, and that's good. The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage, which would prevent this process from taking place."

~ Sue Monk Kidd

"We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins."

~ George Bernard Shaw



"What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid."

~ Robin G. Collingwood