Be proud of your people when you don't have to be ashamed of any of its social classes.

Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it, many of the most important things in my life are invisible.

Willful ignorance is something to be ashamed of, not proud.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.

Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them.

Perfectionism sucks the air out of your uniqueness and leaves you empty, away from who you could become.

The dark might be dark, but at least we don’t have to look at ourselves when we’re standing in it.

You cannot really shame a man who sincerely does not care what others think of him.

Many veterans feel guilty because they lived while others died. Some feel ashamed because they didn’t bring all their men home and wonder what they could have done differently to save them. When they get home they wonder if there’s something wrong with them because they find war repugnant but also thrilling. They hate it and miss it.Many of their self-judgments go to extremes. A comrade died because he stepped on an improvised explosive device and his commander feels unrelenting guilt because he didn’t go down a different street. Insurgents used women and children as shields, and soldiers and Marines feel a totalistic black stain on themselves because of an innocent child’s face, killed in the firefight. The self-condemnation can be crippling.The Moral Injury, New York Times. Feb 17, 2015.

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.