I thought of what pride would look like, a jowly old guy in a smoking jacket. Vanity was a tall, beautiful woman with a face like a mask. Envy was a treasure-hoarding dragon, dainty and diabolical. As I sketched in the dragon's face, I gave her eyebrows like mine, my turtle necklace around its scaly neck.
Xanda drew them as cliffs and valleys, irrevocably linked pride as a mountain, envy as a valley, hating its lowness and longing to reach, overtake, conquer. She drew vanity as a volcano with an abyss at its core.
September 11… I will never forget feeling scared and vulnerable… I will never forget feeling the deep sad loss of so many lives… I will never forget the smell of the smoke that reached across the water and delivered a deep feeling of doom into my gut… I will never forget feeling the boosted sense of unity and pride… I will never forget seeing the courageous actions of so many men and women… I will never forget seeing people of all backgrounds working together in community… I will never forget seeing what hate can destroy… I will never forget seeing what love can heal…
Steve MaraboliMots clés love lost hate courage 9-11 actions unity pride healing lives scared september-11-attacks smoke trade-centers
What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's life, and I said it was the angle at which a man or woman finally lies down. I suppose it is; and yet ... I thought when I began, and still think, that there was another angle in all those years when she was growing old and older and very old, and Grandfather was matching her year for year, a separate line that did not intersect with hers. They were vertical people, they lived by pride, and it is only by the ocular illusion of perspective that they can be said to have met. But he had not been dead two months when she lay down and died too, and that may indicate that at that absolute vanishing point they did intersect. They had intersected for years, for more than he especially would ever admit.
Wallace StegnerMots clés love perspective marriage illusion pride separation resignation matrimony married-life life-lines intersection parallels
How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?
George EliotMots clés compassion pride self-centeredness
Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.
George EliotMy father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.
Tana FrenchMots clés death pride sacrifice
One’s self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.
George EliotMots clés pride
It was time to bring out the world destructive weapons. It was now time to hit him where it would do the biggest damage, his pride.
Ottilie WeberMots clés strength revenge weapons destruction pride inner-self
One question in my mind, which I hardly dare mention in public, is whether patriotism has, overall, been a force for good or evil in the world. Patriotism is rampant in war and there are some good things about it. Just as self-respect and pride bring out the best in an individual, pride in family, pride in teammates, pride in hometown bring out the best in groups of people. War brings out the kind of pride in country that encourages its citizens in the direction of excellence and it encourages them to be ready to die for it. At no time do people work so well together to achieve the same goal as they do in wartime. Maybe that's enough to make patriotism eligible to be considered a virtue. If only I could get out of my mind the most patriotic people who ever lived, the Nazi Germans.
Andy RooneyMots clés evil patriotism war virtue pride nazi
We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.
Elizabeth GoudgeMots clés compassion empathy selfishness pride
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