"The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God."

Pride, Humility, Faith, Struggle

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"The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God."

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"The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning to think myself to be god-like, which causes me to become God-less."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Our primary health care should begin on the farm and in our hearts, and not in some laboratory of the biotech and pharmaceutical companies."

Gary Hopkins, American Author

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"Pride and weakness are Siamese twins."

James Russell Lowell, American Poet

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"Be broken and pride will have no vessel."

TemitOpe Ibrahim, Nigerian Poet

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"I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.He called it his second smile."

Holly Black, American Author

Pride, Violence, Identity, Ritual

"There is nothing lacking in you. You came into this life as an abundant being. You remain as such. Free your heart and mind from anything but this truth."

Renae A. Sauter, American Writer

Pride, Abundance, Self-Worth, Healing, Truth

"But if we reason it out simply and not try to be one bit fancy, then what sort of pride can you possibly take or what's the sense of ever having it, if man is poorly put together as a physiological type and if the enormous majority of the human race is brutal, stupid, and profoundly unhappy?"

Anton Chekhov, Russian Dramatist

Pride, Humanity, Observation, Truth

"I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore."

Cheryl Strayed, American Writer

Pride, Choice, Reality, Life, Regret

"In other words, we are only proud of being more successful, more intelligent or more good-looking than the next person, and we are in the presence of someone who is more successful, intelligent and good-looking than we are, we lose all pleasure in what we had. That is because we really had no pleasure in it. We were proud of it."

Timothy J. Keller, American Author

Pride, Comparison, Insecurity, Status

"Pride will spit in pride's face."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning to think myself to be god-like, which causes me to become God-less."

"Our primary health care should begin on the farm and in our hearts, and not in some laboratory of the biotech and pharmaceutical companies."

"Pride and weakness are Siamese twins."

"Be broken and pride will have no vessel."

"I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.He called it his second smile."

"There is nothing lacking in you. You came into this life as an abundant being. You remain as such. Free your heart and mind from anything but this truth."

"But if we reason it out simply and not try to be one bit fancy, then what sort of pride can you possibly take or what's the sense of ever having it, if man is poorly put together as a physiological type and if the enormous majority of the human race is brutal, stupid, and profoundly unhappy?"

"I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore."

"Pride will spit in pride's face."

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"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."

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"The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you."

"Purity of heart is to will one thing."

"Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own."

"Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts."

"The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo."