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Quotes
for
the Journey:
Guilt
Let other pens dwell on
guilt
and misery. I quit such odious
subjects as soon as I can.
Jane Austen
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Nothing
can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt
and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that are
wicked. By this means
the soul will be not only unpolluted but also undisturbed.
The fountain will run clear and unsullied.
-Plutarch
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It is not
a gain that guilt should be wholly forgotten. On the contrary, it is
loss and perdition. But it is a gain to win an inner intensity of
heart through
a deeper and deeper inner sorrowing over guilt.
-Sören Kierkegaard
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Many
people feel "guilty" about things
they shouldn't feel guilty
about,
in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things
they should feel
guilty about. -Sydney
J. Harris
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I
am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people;
it is usually a way
of not thinking,
or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities
the better
to be rid of them fast. -Lillian
Hellman
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| To make no mistakes is not
in
the power of people,
but from
their errors and mistakes the
wise and
the good learn
wisdom for the future. -Plutarch |
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| Action and care will in time
wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of
quick dispatch. -Thomas Paine |
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I was always fraught with guilt, and
it's such a waste of an emotion. It keeps you out of the moment of being
where you are. -Kyra Sedgwick
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| I've done plenty
for which I could carry around a ton of guilt. But if I do that, I cannot serve my fellow man at all, for
I'll be so caught up in what's
happened in the past that I won't be able to focus on the present, which
is where they need me to be. If you're carrying around guilt, make
amends. If you can't apologize to the person, write down an apology
and let out all that's in your heart--then burn it or throw it away.
Let your guilt go with it. Maybe it was your fault, but no loving
person would want you to feel guilty for the rest of your life over one
incident. A spiteful or vengeful person may want that, but recognize
that person for who he or she is, and don't allow that miserable person's
desire to continue to control your life with the puppet strings of
guilt. Move on. Live in today. Be a help to those who
surround you. -Tom Walsh |
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| When we hold onto
the negative in ourselves it comes with endless
guilt. We hold onto a lifetime of floating visions and regrets about
what we should have done or should have become. Conscience
recognizes wrong and tries to atone. But guilt turns into
resentment. Conscience brings us closer to each other; guilt drives us apart.
Create a new feeling. Every time guilt settles in your stomach,
write "I forgive" on a piece of paper. Send it up the
chimney, tear
it up and flush it, put it in the garbage. Don't eat it.
-Jennifer James |
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| Guilt is the sum total of:
All the negative feelings we have ever had about ourselves! Any form of self-hatred, self-rejection, feelings of worthlessness,
sinfulness, inferiority, incompetence, failure, or emptiness. The feeling that there are things in us that are lacking or missing or
incomplete. -Ken Wapnick |
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| Focus
on guilt will always breed fear, and focus on innocence will always
breed love. Any time we project guilt onto someone else, we are
fortifying
the experience of guilt within ourselves. Like blood on Lady
MacBeth's
hands, we cannot remove our own guilty feelings
as long as we are judging others. -Marianne
Williamson |
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| Chronic remorse, as
all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment.
If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and
address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no
account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the
best way of getting clean. -Aldous Huxley |
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| Guilt is not a
response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack
of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it
is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all
too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for
defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to
protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are,
the ultimate protection for changelessness.
-Audre Lorde |
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| Tereza's mother never
stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing
everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were
by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of
her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was
the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great
sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter
was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.
-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
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