“You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.”— Danielle LaPorte, daniellelaporte.com
“Never let fear and stupid pride make you lose someone who’s precious to you.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Yet, I didn’t understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid t…”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? …Well, think about it. Maybe you’re playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“Do not take someone’s silence as his pride, perhaps he is busy fighting with his self.”— Ali ibn Abi Talib, goodreads.com
“I’ll tell every one in the world that you are the only one that matters.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“You are the only person who can build emotional barriers, but you’re also the only person who can topple them. Other people can’t knock down the walls you’ve built, no matter how much they love you. You have to tear them down yourself because there’s something worth seeing on the other side.”— Emery Lord, amazon.com
“Republican Senators were served a nice lunch at the White House today, but I'm pretty sure all they swallowed was their pride.”— Stephen Colbert, twitter.com
“Deciding whether or not to give someone a second chance requires thinking about a lot more than you had to when giving them the first chance. Your pride is involved, and having your heart broken for a second time by the same person is the worst kind of heartbreak. So you need to make sure it’s worth…”— Julia Austin, madamenoire.com
“Strength comes from your vulnerability, and being able to step outside of your pride, your protective shell, your fear and say, ‘I need help.’”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“A strong woman’s pride doesn’t make her allergic to emotions. It makes her capable of feeling them.”— Nicole Tarkoff, thoughtcatalog.com
“There was no point in telling somebody not to cry, she had always thought; indeed there were times when you should do exactly the opposite, when you should urge people to cry, to start the healing that sometimes only tears can bring. But if there was a place for tears of relief, there might even be…”— Alexander McCall Smith, amazon.com
“Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments — but all of this is transitory it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com