There may not be an emotion more complex than the dual stations of pride. The positive connation of pride — the telluric current resulting from both natural causes and interactions of human beings — flows from the conception of applying a person’s best effort to accomplish worthwhile tasks. The negative connotation of pride refers to an inflated sense of one’s personal status or accomplishments. Kilroy J. Oldster
If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.
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Shannon L. Alder
It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.
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John Joseph Powell
You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door?...
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Toni Morrison
Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.
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Mandy Hale
Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.
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Asa Don Brown
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