{"quotes":[{"text":"I am sitting here at thirty-six feeling like I am responsible for the holocaust for all that is toxic and wrong. Maybe it’s because I eat meat, and I stepped on three ants last Tuesday.","author":"Amber Garibay","tags":["feelings-of-weakness","guilt","holocaust","karma","meat","responsible","toxic","tuesday","wrong"],"id":512,"author_id":"Amber+Garibay"},{"text":"Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.","author":"Cathy Guisewite","tags":["love","food","guilt "],"id":712,"author_id":"Cathy+Guisewite"},{"text":"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.","author":"Alan W. Watts","tags":["fear","future","guilt","heart","now"],"id":1870,"author_id":"Alan+W.+Watts"},{"text":"My prescription for better health is to let go of the six things that could be destroying it—anger, regret, blame, resentment, worry, and guilt.","author":"Charles F. Glassman","tags":["blame-others","guilt","healthy-living","worry"],"id":4039,"author_id":"Charles+F.+Glassman"},{"text":"All day we've witnessed each other's crimes. You killed no one today? But how many did you leave to die?","author":"Ian McEwan","tags":["crime","guilt"],"id":4455,"author_id":"Ian+McEwan"},{"text":"We’re animals. No shame, no guilt - no sin….","author":"Heather McVea","tags":["guilt","shame","sin","werewolf-paranormal-romance"],"id":5294,"author_id":"Heather+McVea"},{"text":"The pain and the sadness that you encounter when you lose something important is only a mix of one emotion: guilt. When you feel it once, you learn from it. When you live it twice, you mourn in silence. But if you experience it thrice, you will break, shattering like a frail piece of glass. But if you manage to survive, then you will only be a shadow of your soul: a broken doll. Because we are nothing more than mere puppets of Destiny, holding tightly on the string that keeps us from being consumed by the darkness. The string that will eventually lead humankind to its pinnacle.A simple red string named Hope.","author":"Giou Yomi","tags":["destiny","guilt","hope-and-despair"],"id":7504,"author_id":"Giou+Yomi"},{"text":"The scene is most beautiful without people in it. People just screw things up. Forget the whole thing, the world, all the living people, I tell myself, and it has a ring of truth to it. The dead are better, aren't they? The dead don't betray or harm. They've already done all they can do. I can't figure out what people mean or who they are or whether they can be trusted, so, forget them. Don't even try anymore. For now at least, forget the living.","author":"Jael McHenry","tags":["death","earth","ecology","guilt"],"id":7525,"author_id":"Jael+McHenry"},{"text":"There’s a Chinese word that means “soul sister,” and that is the word I would use to address you in my heart. Listen to me, soul sister: Fate or luck or destiny already put you through hell once. Please don’t make it worse by condemning yourself. There is no choice that would have left you feeling no guilt. Every time I watch Adam struggle to speak, every time I see another child laugh and point at him, every time I watch his face fall as he realizes he is not going to be treated like the other kids, I feel wrenched by guilt just as you did when you heard my story. Life is hard. We make the best choices we can. Condemnation, whether it comes from around you or inside you, only robs the world of another dram of compassion. God knows, we need all the compassion we can get. If you promise to try to forgive yourself, I’ll try to forgive myself as well. I think, in my heart of hearts, that there is nothing for either one of us to forgive.","author":"Martha Beck","tags":["choices","choices-and-consequences","compassion","condemnation","forgiveness","guilt","life","love","understanding"],"id":8767,"author_id":"Martha+Beck"},{"text":"We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["guilt","intellect","life","pursuit-of-happiness","rewards","work"],"id":9063,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":733,"pages":74,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}