Many of you might wonder why I choose the quotes I pick to
post on my Quotation Saturday. In the experimental stages, I’m going to express
why I chose the quotes I chose.
Here goes:
I chose PRIDE because all to often this week I have seen
chest pounding antics of people who seem to be too high on a pride-filled horse
and personally need to be knocked off and smacked with reality.
PRIDE
“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are
often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride
relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others
think of us.”
~ Jane Austen
“As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man
is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are
looking down you cannot see something that is above you.”
~ C.S. Lewis
“The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the
great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting
not with man, but with God.”
~ Søren Kierkegaard
“Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices
anymore. No, these are marketing tools. Lust is our way of life. Envy is just a
nudge towards another sale. Even in our relationships we consume each other,
each of us looking for what we can get out of the other. Our appetites are
often satisfied at the expense of those around us. In a dog-eat-dog world we
lose part of our humanity.”
~ Jon Foreman
“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with
creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated
by pride and vanity.”
~ Dale Carnegie
I chose judgment because it seems that prideful people are
placing judgment on others these days. I do believe if they are without sin,
then go ahead cast stones.
JUDGMENT
“If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and
if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.”
~ Junot Díaz
“Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When
we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start
walking all over others to get it.”
~ Criss Jami
“Can you look without the voice in your head commenting,
drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?”
~ Eckhart Tolle
“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an
absurd attitude to take towards life.”
~ Oscar Wilde
I chose vanity because I feel pride and vanity are very
much alike. They’re not but people seem to embrace them both.
VANITY
“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are
often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride
relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others
think of us.”
~ Jane Austen
“Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of
their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear,
desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos-- condition our
vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the
corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the
glass must become through which we look at each other. That's how it is in all
living relationships except when there is that rare case of two people who love
intensely enough to burn through all those layers of opacity and see each
other's naked hearts.”
~ Tennessee Williams
“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with
creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated
by pride and vanity.”
~ Dale Carnegie
I chose dignity because people seem to lack this
very much.
DIGNITY
“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the
consciousness that we deserve them.”
~ Aristotle
“Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity
grows
with the ability to say no to oneself.”
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
“Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter
how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.”
~ Rick Bragg
“People have the right to call themselves whatever they
like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers
me.”
~ Octavia E. Butler
“Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and
oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical
hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the
body should have surrendered it.”
~ Laura Hillenbrand
I feel if more people had dignity they would be less
prideful and stop judging others before they judge themselves. ~ Joni
Just because you have an opinion on something doesn’t mean
everyone else shares that opinion. Expecting them to is making them as arrogant
as you. ~ Joni
I chose boasting because I’m so sick and tired of
everyone’s bloated ego’s that they feel the need to spread THEIR ways to the
world.
BOASTING
“The truest human is the one whose conduct proceeds from
goodwill and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self control is equal to
all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the
obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who
is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not
flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or
achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy;
whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others
rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor
is sacred and virtue safe.”
~ Markesa Yeager
“What do you have that was not given to you? And if it was
given, how can you boast as if it were your own?”
~ 1 Corinthians 5: 7
“The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live
without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that.”
~ Max Lucado
