The Pleasure of Pride

"The pleasure of pride is like the pleasure of scratching.
If there is an itch one does want to scratch; but it is much nicer
to have neither the itch nor the scratch.

As long as we have the itch of self-regard we shall want
the pleasure of self-approval; but the happiest moments are
those when we forget our precious selves and have neither
but have everything else, (God, our fellow humans, animals,
the garden, and the sky.)" ~C.S. Lewis~