Healthy shame is an emotion that teaches us about our limits. Like all emotions, shame moves us to get our basic needs met.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.
Shame is such an intense emotion. It just can drive you.
Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.
There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.
Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.
We're all walking around trying to deal with a certain amount of shame, to repress it. And we restrict our mental lives to smaller and smaller areas.
Guilt can stop us from taking healthy care of ourselves.
Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.
There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.