Toxic Shame Quotes

#1. The unlimited power that many modern gurus offer is false hope. Their programs calling us to unlimited power have made them rich, not us. They touch our false selves and tap our toxic shame.

John Bradshaw

#2. Unfortunately, accomplishments do not reduce internalized shame. In fact, the more one achieves, the more one has to achieve. Toxic shame is about being; no amount of doing will ever change it.

John Bradshaw

#3. Our goal isn't to close Wal-Mart down. It is to make it a better, more humane company toward its employees and the communities it is in.

Robert Greenwald

#4. What she said was I want a man who stays out of my way.

Gail Carriger

#5. I walk by faith, not by sight.

Denzel Washington

#6. Shame is internalized when one is abandoned. Abandonment is the precise term to describe how one loses one's authentic self and ceases to exist psychologically.

John Bradshaw

#7. It's very strange when people get so focused on what a song means, what actual events inspired a song. That gets people really excited for some reason ... But that's what's great about music - however people interpret it, whatever they see, is what I want to be there for them.

Conor Oberst

#8. There's something about watching an animal that puts you in contact with where we came from and what we're still a part of.

John Cleese

#9. My son John was just under a year old when I collapsed with a life-threatening kidney disease. The shame and guilt resulting from my unplanned pregnancy had continued to fester to the point that my toxic feelings literally poisoned my body.

Mary Manin Morrissey

#10. Anything that distracts from the story you are trying to tell should be promptly and mercilessly dealt with.

Craig Hart

#11. Wealthy parents today, she argues, are more likely than others to be emotionally distant from their children while at the same time insisting on high levels of achievement, a potentially toxic blend of influences that can create "intense feelings of shame and hopelessness" in affluent children.

Paul Tough

#12. He was definitely better-looking than some of these guys, although Ace, for one, was way hotter than him. "Thanks,

A.R. Steele

#13. There is a riddle about a man who is locked in a room with nothing but a bed and a calendar, and the question is: How does he survive?
The answer is: He eats dates from the calendar and drinks from the springs of the bed.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. My heart's no less bulletproof than yours. Believe me. But if you feel like you have nothing, then you have nothing to lose, right? Give yourself a shot at being my . . . different.

Gail McHugh

#15. One of the consistent themes you'll find throughout the Bible is that God will always provide the necessary information about Jesus Christ to someone who sincerely desires to receive that revelation.

Robert Jeffress

#16. I want to do theatre and I want to do period drama.

Lauren Socha

#17. For me, the reason to make the movie is that if people like the comic, then people would like the movie if it was well made. There are good movies for them, but very few. And I mean that in a true sense. If they love your story for freaking 30 years, then they can do a movie about it.

Gilbert Hernandez

#18. I'm trying to tell people that I am happy the way I am. But why do people have to call my happiness a failure?

Kim Ung-yong

#19. Socks may eat wherever they want to.

Dorothea Kent