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#1

“The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: annoying, deceit, envy, falsehood, fool, frustration, haters, jealous, jealousy, lies, listen, slander, troublesome

577 likes

#2

“I don’t chase after anyone, If you wanna walk out of my life, then I’ll hold the fucking door open for you.”
― Wiz Khalifa

tags: haters, inspirational, life

302 likes

#3

“Haters and bullies are always cowards, you know. They like to pick on little guys.”
― Scylar Tyberius, Sebastian the Great

tags: bigotry, bullies, cowardice, haters, life-lesson

160 likes

#4

“There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

tags: arrogance, cocky, cognition, confidence, conviction, ego, haters, humility, minority, offense, pride, right, superiority, wrong

399 likes

#5

“When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: adversity, authenticity, beginnings, envy, fame, haters, humility, jealous, jealousy, perseverance, somebody, success, underdog

138 likes

#6

“You will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle.”
― Shannon L. Alder

593 likes

#7

“If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

tags: empathy, listening, shame, speaking

651 likes

#8

“When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

tags: empathy, survival-instinct

65 likes

#9

“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”
― John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love

tags: affection, alone, beauty, camaraderie, caring, caring-for-others, closeness, companionship, compassion, connectedness, connection, disconnection, empathy, estrangement, fellowship, friendship, friendship-quotes, hug, hugs, intimacy, isolation, kindness, kindred-spirits, loneliness, love, love-at-first-sight, love-quotes, lovers, loving, loving-someone, mirror, mutuality, partnership, reciprocal, reciprocity, reflected-in-you, relationship, relationship-quotes, relationships, romance, self-belief, self-esteem, self-hatred, self-realization, self-worth, self-worthiness, soul-mate, soulmates, togetherness, touch, twin-flames

1788 likes

#10

“Understanding people’s difficulties and—just as crucial—helping people understand their own difficulties and teaching them concrete ways to help themselves will help them better deal with their own lives and, in turn, ours.”
― Kathryn Erskine, Mockingbird

tags: author-s-note, empathy, kathryn-erskine, life, mockingbird, people, understanding

30 likes

#11

“What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people.”
― Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing

tags: empathy, understanding

35 likes

#12

“If bullies actually believe that somebody loves them and believes in them, they will love themselves, they will become better people, and many will even become saviors to the bullied.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

tags: bullies, bully, bullying, compassion, empathy, greatness, love

40 likes

#13

“One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.”
― Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep

tags: empathy, sadism

17 likes

#14

“We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection.

Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them – we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.

Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed and rare.”
― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection

tags: affection, betrayal, blame, connection, disrespect, love, self, shame, vulnerability

1727 likes

#15

“Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.”
― Brene Brown, I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame

tags: shame

428 likes

#16

“Shame isn't a quiet grey cloud, shame is a drowning man who claws his way on top of you, scratching and tearing your skin, pushing you under the surface.”
― Kirsty Eagar, Raw Blue

tags: shame

81 likes

#17

“Abuse manipulates and twists a child’s natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can’t afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she’s being abused—pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, arousal. So she short-circuits them and goes numb. For many children, any expression of feelings, even a single tear, is cause for more severe abuse. Again, the only recourse is to shut down. Feelings go underground.”
― Laura Davis, Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child

tags: abuse, child-abuse, guilt, healing, innocence, love, manipulation, repressed-feelings, shame, trust

283 likes

#18

“Our stories are not meant for everyone. Hearing them is a privilege, and we should always ask ourselves this before we share: "Who has earned the right to hear my story?" If we have one or two people in our lives who can sit with us and hold space for our shame stories, and love us for our strengths and struggles, we are incredibly lucky. If we have a friend, or small group of friends, or family who embraces our imperfections, vulnerabilities, and power, and fills us with a sense of belonging, we are incredibly lucky.”
― Brené Brown

tags: shame

300 likes

#19

“Among the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you were.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Enshrined

tags: insight, sadness, shame

43 likes

#20

“Every child that receives life advice should keep in mind that in every parent’s past, there’s leftover booze and contraceptives.”
― Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

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#21

“We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.”
― Brené Brown, I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame

tags: change, growth, shame

85 likes

#22

“Never miss an opportunity to be truly and deeply humiliated! The shame will carve you down to an individual of exquisite layering, and in the process, etch within you the arcs of exceptional narrative.”
― Ashim Shanker, Sinew of the Social Species

tags: character-building, humility, inspirational-quotes, layers, narrative, self-growth-and-improvement, shame

10 likes

#23

“Her only shame was that she felt none.”
― Nicholas Evans, The Horse Whisperer

tags: inspirational, life, shame

23 likes

#24

“Knowing what I do now, I think about shame and worthiness in this way: 'It's the album, not the picture.' If you imagine opening up a photo album, and many of the pages are full eight-by-ten photos of shaming events, you'll close that album and walk away thinking, Shame defines that story. If, on the other hand, you open that album and see a few small photos of shame experiences, but each one is surrounded by pictures of worthiness, hope, struggle, resilience, courage, failure, success, and vulnerability, the shame experience are only a part of a larger story. They don't define the album.”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

tags: shame, worthiness

12 likes

#25

“It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

tags: disasters, good-and-evil, goodness, human-nature, humanity, life, people, sad-but-true, shame, suffering, suffering-of-humanity, tragedies, tragedy, tragic, tragic-events, trials, trials-and-tribulations, trials-of-life

27 likes

#26

“The biggest potential for helping us overcome shame is this: We are “those people.” The truth is…we are the others. Most of us are one paycheck, one divorce, one drug-addicted kid, one mental health illness, one sexual assault, one drinking binge, one night of unprotected sex, or one affair away from being “those people”–the ones we don’t trust, the ones we pity, the ones we don’t let our kids play with, the ones bad things happen to, the ones we don’t want living next door.”
― Brené Brown, I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn't): Making the Journey from "What Will People Think?" to "I Am Enough"

tags: abortion, addiction, divorce, poverty, shame

104 likes

#27

“Christmas is such a time of struggle anyway, crammed with busy and hurry and the expectation that you will be joyful, no matter what. Then, if you’re like me, when you just sit quietly, just be, and let yourself feel what you feel, the guilt creeps in. Because you’re alive and the world is big, and you should be feeling some freakin’ Christmas spirit.”
― Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

tags: bereavement, christmas, christmas-humor, christmas-spirit, guilt, holidays, loss, memoir, shame, struggle

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#28

“Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy. When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.”
― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection

tags: secrecy, shame

79 likes