“It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.” ― John Ruskin
“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.” ― Emily Brontë
“In the battle of egos, both competitors lose.”- Robin Sharma
“If I only had one sermon to preach, it would be against pride.”- GK Chesterton
I barely, just barely, have enough awareness to realize that without being aware of it, I’d feed this pride of mine to no end, losing friends and family as collateral along the way. All self-righteous in a castle of nothingness.
“He can reach out back to me first.”
“If she has any future with him, she’ll lose me as a brother.”
“I will cut you out of my life faster than I did our aunt.”
“This house is so dysfunctional. I am leaving the first chance I get.”
“Just bail from a threat? I hate bailing. I loathe that feeling. It makes me feel like a bitch.”
“Amar, I don’t need you.”
“I’m glad you’re gone.”
“Do whatever you want.”