A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. ― Hugh Downs

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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. ― Khalil Gibran

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It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride. ― John Ruskin

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When you know what God says, what He means, and how to put His truths into practice, you will be equipped for every circumstance of life.

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I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself. ― Michel de Montaigne

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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.- Viktor E. Frankl

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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

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Almost nothing in life is constant. Conditions and circumstances are perpetually in flux like the winds and the tide, which is why my mind is never fixed. ― David Goggins

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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

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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. ― Soren A. Kierkegaard

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