Listenable Music 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

Instead I learned that the poor usually stay poor. That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing. — Charles Bukowski

I can pretty much get in touch with my evil side pretty easily. — Kelly Hu

My joy is like Spring, so warm
it makes flowers bloom all over the Earth.
My pain is like a river of tears,
so vast it fills the four oceans.

Please call me by my true names,
so I can hear all my cries and laughter at once,
so I can see that my joy and pain are one. — Thich Nhat Hanh

So you're spending more than you're making? What did I tell you about being responsible? Damn it, Camille! How many times have I told you not to get the credit cards?" He wiped his mouth and threw his napkin on the table. "I didn't whip your ass enough as a child! If I had, you might listen to me once in a goddamn while!" Trenton — Jamie McGuire

There's always motivation coming into Majors. If you can't get up and get excited to win one of these, then you probably shouldn't be playing golf. — Jason Dufner

they can all stand quiescent in airless venues for extended periods, their eyes' expressions that unique NYC combination of Zen meditation and clinical depression, clearly unhappy but never complaining. — David Foster Wallace

Color of gold. I have short black hair and green eyes; — Frances Hodgson Burnett

O Don Quixote, wise as thou art brave,
La Mancha's splendor and of Spain the star!
To thee I say that if the peerless maid,
Dulcinea del Toboso, is to be restored
to the state that was once hers, it needs must be
that thy squire Sancho take on his bared behind,
those sturdy buttocks, must consent to take
three thousand lashes and three hundred more,
and well laid on, that they may sting and smart;
for those are the authors of her woe
have thus resolved, and that is why I've come,
This, gentles, is the word I bring to you. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry. — Andrew Schneider

I have been accused of denying consciousness but I am not conscious of having done so. — Willard Van Orman Quine

Maybe this was the quiet before the real fucking quiet. — Ben Marcus

People who roll their eyes are stupid, — Andrew Hilbert

Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues. — Herman Melville

There are truths found in books or films when some writer puts exactly the right words together and it's like their pen turned sword and pierced you right through the heart. — Susan Juby