It Was Not Pride That hurts Me.

(Today I was hurt. I have not learned not to be hurt.)

... pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts — not to hurt others.

- George Eliot


Call me "proud", I hurt alone.

- Ghostwise

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To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?

- Albert Camus


And even when we live in exile, we have not lost the capability to hurt ourself.

- Ghostwise

When Pride Betrays.

"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it."

-Bernard Bailey


But they will think they ought to be.

- Ghostwise

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To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.

-Charles Caleb Colton


We forget to guard our pride when we are pleased with ourselves.

- Ghostwise

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