By Sara Lindberg — 2020
There are many ways to work on self-development and self-improvement, but setting specific goals for personal growth can increase your likelihood of success.
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Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. . . . It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.
Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.
Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’
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