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Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.
- Audre Lorde
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology
Guilt is about actions or behavior;
while shame is about the self.
- "Dr. Sanity"
Guilt says I've done something wrong;
... shame says there is something wrong with me.
Guilt says I've made a mistake;
... shame says I am a mistake.
Guilt says what did was not good;
... shame says I am no good.
- John Bradshaw
You go against yourself when you
judge or blame yourself for anything
- don Miguel Ruiz
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Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
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Be yourself. There is nothing more for you to do
than to be the best YOU that you can be -
with no imitation, no pretense, no guilt, no shame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Release Myself From All Guilt.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have to learn to push the guilt
under the rug and move on,
otherwise it overwhelms you.
- the Woody Allen movie Match Point
I Release Myself From All Guilt.
I forgive myself for judging me guilty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I rest in the light of forgiveness.
I forgive myself and others for that
which is done (and better left undone)
and also that which is not done (and better if done).
I give myself permission to enjoy this moment without guilt.
I freely release all uncertainty, regret, and fear.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears.
The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All religions are the same:
Religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.
- Cathy Ladman
Guilt for being rich,
and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough
and you have to go and get shot or something.
- John Lennon
You are not your mind. You, a Spiritual BEing,
are neither your mind nor your body.
Mind and body are your tools - to use as you choose.
Sometimes your body appears to have a will of its own,
as when it twitches or pains.
Likewise, your mind often appears to have its own will.
That incessant chattering of regret, disappointment, guilt,
shame, foreboding, worry, and fear
is your Rattlesnake Mind striking off on its own.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Drop guilt! - because to be guilty is to live in hell.
Not being guilty, you will have the freshness
of dewdrops in the early morning sun,
you will have the freshness of lotus petals in the lake,
you will have the freshness of the stars in the night.
Once guilt disappears you will have
a totally different kind of life, luminous and radiant.
You will have a dance to your feet
and your heart will be singing a thousand and one songs.
- Osho
The Ought-To Need-To Tango:
I am racked with the guilt and the pain of I should,
and I ought, and I can't, but I must.
I can't rest; I can't sleep; I'm just not understood,
and I hate that the world is unjust.
I have work; I have woes; I have troubles for life;
but I don't have a ME that I trust.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men
is primarily based on mutual trust
and only secondarily on institutions
such as courts of justice and police.
- Albert Einstein
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
The greatest and most important problems of life
are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown.
- Carl Jung
Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared,
ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We could never learn to be brave and patient,
if there were only joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie
Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell
Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield
Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is.
The only problem in your life
is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
It's work only if I say it's work,
but it's play if I say it's fun.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
- Ram Dass
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you have only one smile in you,
give it to the people you love.
Don't be surly at home,
then go out in the street
and start grinning good morning
at total strangers.
- Maya Angelou
We live in a wonderful world that is
full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have
if only we seek them with our eyes open.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
The whole art of teaching is only the art
of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France
Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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