Sharon Needles Quotes

What is the point of abusing yourself with guilt in the first place? If you did make a mistake and act in a hurtful way, your guilt won't reverse your blunder in some magical manner. It won't speed your learning processes so as to reduce the chance you'll make the same mistake in the future. Other people won't love and respect you more because you are feeling guilty and putting yourself down in this manner. Nor will your guilt lead to productive living. So what's the point?

It seems to me that everyone on this planet whom I know or have worked with is suffering from self-hatred and guilt to one degree or another. The more self-hatred and guilt we have, the less our lives work. The less self-hatred and guilt we have, the better our lives work, on all levels.

Do not have regrets. Guilt is a wasted emotion.

You don't have to live with anger, or sadness, or jealousy. You don't have to judge yourself, make yourself guilty, and punish yourself.

I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.

Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt. Sure, we all feel it. But we also get to decide if we're going to let guilt bring us down or not. Acknowledge the feelings, and then give yourself permission to let them go.

I try not to regret too much. I find that feeling guilty takes up so much of my time already.

I've become bored of being insecure, ashamed, scared... no one should feel like that about themselves, especially when there is so much good life to live.

I don't want to be a slave to nostalgia.

If you don't enjoy your life, sorrow, sadness, suffering, fear, shame and guilt will.

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.

Releasing guilt is like removing a huge weight from your shoulders. Guilt is released through the empowering thought of love and respect for yourself. Let go of standards of perfection and refuse to use up the precious currency of your life, the now, with thoughts that continue to frustrate and weaken you. Instead, vow to be better than you used to be, which is the true test of nobility.

We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.

Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.

guilt is a pollutant and we don't need any more of it in the world.

Fear and guilt are your only enemies. Love and awareness are your true friends. Do not confuse one with the other, for one will kill you, while the other gives you life.

Emotional Freedom is a must-read for anyone who's tired of feeling frustrated, lonely, or stopped by fear.

Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? Forgive yourself and stop punishing yourself.

Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.

We have a choice every day between fear and love.

It saddens me how much fear we've instilled in ourselves.

On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

I think some of the biggest time sucks are regret and guilt, and I have to fight against those things all the time. In a way, it's a good thing, because it can motivate you to make amends and forgive, but regrets are really, I think, a supreme waste of time in many ways.

You can never get rid of all of your fears. Some are necessary and a part of life. But most of our fears are illusory, based on risks or threats that exist only in our minds. Such fears constrain and make you miserable. The feeling of moving past a particular fear is one of liberation and freedom.

Do we indulge our heart, or cater to our fear?