#wounded pride

[flickeringart]

With Chiron in Leo there’s an issue with self-confidence and self-love which pushes the individual to become very skilled at showing themselves off, almost to the point of it becoming awkward for people to watch because it’s so obvious that it stems from a complex. Overcompensation is very common with this placement. Wouldn’t be surprised if these people are driven to fame in order to find a sense of significance.

A wounded lion is painful to look at.

[ladyinpoetry]

Poem of the Day #205

[the-ephemeral-ethereal]

No matter where you are, people are basically the same. Besides, anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.

from The Name of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

[madewithonerib]

RE: Frida Kahlo, from a letter wr. c. November 1933 | Feeling the Day

Man the King Delights to Honor | Timothy Keller [Esther 3:1-6; 6:1-10]

Haman, the enemy of Queen Esther, is one of the most vivid case studies in the Bible of unchecked pride. We learn three things from the account of Haman:

1.] The character of pride; 2.] The deadliness of pride; 3.] The cure for pride.

This is one of my favourite sermon talks for 2022, I was sick for a week with COVID & this was one of four things I heard over & over while they announced the death of QE2.

Besides those epochs, I was really challenged by this presentation of the many ways pride disguises itself. It is the air we breathe, and goes unnoticed most days until we are made painfully aware of its causes & underlying symptoms that rears its ugly head to ruin not only our day but our ability to cultivate lasting relationships that do not stagnate endlessly around one inane subject, i.e. hockey or pet peeves. I think most of you call it water cooler talk, or gossip..

[longsightmyth]

Myth's review of Wounded Pride (Gesa's Menagerie, #5)

2/5: I'd have liked this installment better if I didn't feel that Kai was criminally underused by the story. You have an unfathomably old kr

[shironezuninja]

Call me “Just Some Girl”...One More Time, you Impulsive, Inexperienced Gen Z Kids.😡😝😤

[100percenthouses]

So apparently a lesson was learned in the house today. A lesson of self preservation and who we are as a family. My uncle, bless his soul, a man who was intelligent enough to soar through Vet at uni was offered dip at a street party. His options for the dips were beetroot or hummus and in this moment all his self awareness left his body. In his attempt to please the hostess he didn't know, an inherent need to not be disliked by these strangers, he accepted and accepted knowing full well that he is really very allergic to sesame which just so happens to be a major ingredient in both of them. The tipping point where he realised that self preservation may be a thing happened as he put the damn food in his mouth and he subtly went to spit it out in their immaculately clean garden and silently walk home to find his medication for his rapidly swelling throat and to reflect on all his life choices, leaving his children to go and inform their mum that 'dad had gone home to die quietly and not inconvenience the neighbours' And I'm pretty sure if I was in his situation I would have done the exact same thing

[heartisyoung-blog1]

[HGF] Wounded Pride

She didn’t know why she bothered trying, really. There wasn’t really a chance that she’d be able to scale to the top of the mountain and find the blue feather... she hadn’t had anyone to give it to in the first place.

The promise of luck was a good one, though, and she had gotten so close... after she had gotten herself healed up she was left with severely wounded pride.

As it should have been cut down. She deserved to feel like this, to feel so humbled compared to the goddesses. She didn’t deserve to feel like she could come close. She should’ve torn up that ballot when she had the chance to, but now she was simply stuck with her past selves’ decision.