Hope During The Great Depression Quotes & Sayings

Shame is paralyzing and debilitating. It invites us not to be heard, at least not in an authentic way. Acting courageously when shame enters the picture requires extraordinary courage because people will do anything to escape from shame or from the possibility that shame will be evoked. It is just too difficult to go there. Even for people who will walk in to the fires of transformation to face fear.

Men and women tend to manage shame differently. Generally, men have less tolerance for shame, perhaps because they are shamed almost from birth for half their humanity. The so called feminine part of themselves including anything vulnerable or seen as weak. Men often sit with shame for only a nanosecond before flipping it into something more masculine or therefore tolerable like anger or rage or a need to dominate devalue or control. — Harriet Lerner

I'm a preacher's kid, and we were always told, Act right all the time, because someone's always watching. — Gwen Ifill

All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it's a sign of security. — Mel Brooks

Those who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed; and are not ashamed of what they ought to be - such men, embracing erroneous views, enter the woeful path. — Gautama Buddha

It's also hard to believe, because people alive today, immigration's been a daily event and a daily topic for their whole lives. They can't conceive of a period of time where there was no immigration. — Rush Limbaugh

I have never experienced being daddy, it must be really fun. — M.F. Moonzajer

Accept no one's definition of your life, define yourself. — Harvey Fierstein

Envy is a kind of praise. — John Gay

I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities. — Anna Journey