What is the difference between pride and pride? Aphorisms and quotes about pride Causes of self-abasement.

A sense of pride is born inside a person - by praising himself. Vanity is fed from the outside - when the praise comes from others. - A. Schopenhauer.

It doesn’t matter if you are too proud of yourself, or too underestimated, it only shows that you don’t know yourself. - B. Spinoza.

Do not confuse pride with self-esteem. When you achieve success and respect from the outside, pride grows, and human dignity is comprehended when humiliation comes from others. - L. Tolstoy.

To realize human dignity within oneself is an obligation to oneself. - I. Kant.

If we did not know what our own pride is, it would not be so noticeable in others. - F. La Rochefoucauld.

The highest pride is an indicator of a base soul. - I. Turgenev.

If you want to exalt someone's virtues in the best possible way, treat them as your due. - R. Emerson.

Only infinitely insignificant people have infinitely great pride. - Voltaire.

He who is himself sinful with the quality of pride, he feels hostility to pride in others. – B. Franklin.

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The highest dignity is inaccessible to the understanding of the crowd, the latter willingly praises the virtues of a lower order; average virtues arouse in her surprise, or rather, amazement; as for the highest virtues, she does not even have a concept of them. – F. Bacon

The more we talk about our virtues, the less they believe in them. – N. Chernyshevsky

Be happy that you have conquered yourself. Only this victory is worthy of respect. - J. Wolfram.

Nothing can be more commendable than the consciousness of our own dignity in those cases when we really have valuable qualities. – D. Hume

Truly extraordinary virtues are possessed by those who have managed to earn the praise of their envious people. – F. La Rochefoucauld

A moment is enough to become a hero, but a lifetime is needed to become a worthy person. – P. Brula

The dignity of each person depends only on how he shows himself in his actions. – A. Knigge

Pride that dines with vanity gets scorn for supper. – B. Franklin

Be most proud of what owes you the least. – P. Balepu

It is no small merit to recognize as ignorance what others consider to be knowledge, and openly admit that you do not know what you really do not know. – P. Gassendi

The dignity of people is the dignity of precious stones, which, being of a certain size, purity, perfection, have a certain and indicated price, but, being above this brand, have no price and do not find buyers at all. – N. Chamfort

If someone offended me - this is his business, such is his inclination, such is his temper; I have my own disposition, such as is given to me by nature, and I will remain true to my nature in my actions. — Marcus Aurelius

We quickly notice the slightest advantages in ourselves and slowly discover the shortcomings. – J. La Bruyère

Virtues are not as conspicuous as vices. - Ancient Ind.

Pride eradicates all vices except itself. – R. Emerson

People sometimes draw wrong conclusions, but they do not often underestimate the good qualities of a person than show loyalty to his false merits. - F. La Rochefoucauld.

Only those who have deeply studied morals are able to recognize all the signs that distinguish pride from vanity. The first holds her head high, imperturbable, courageous, calm, adamant; the second is base, insecure, cowardly, fussy and changeable. Pride, as it were, adds height to people, vanity only inflates them. – N. Chamfort

There is nothing more useful than a good name, and nothing creates it so firmly as dignity. – L. Vauvenargues

Be proud that you have overcome your shortcomings, not that you have none. - P. Buast.

Our pride is often heightened by the shortcomings we have overcome. – F. La Rochefoucauld

Market people are proud of their dexterity and ingenuity. But life passes the way, as if in the ignorance of a child: they are prone to fraud and boast of extravagance, they never think how their life will end. – Chen Zian

My life experience has convinced me that people who have no faults have very few virtues. – A. Lincoln

The deepest characteristic of human nature is the passionate desire of people to be appreciated. – W. James

A person should be valued not for his merits, but because of how he disposes of these merits. - F. La Rochefoucauld.

Judge the merits of a stranger by his deeds; in deeds, the fruits of even secret intent are always exposed. – Hitopadesha

It is as reasonable to give credit to one's virtues in private as it is ridiculous to exalt them in the presence of others. – F. La Rochefoucauld

Pride is often a barrier to true greatness. – M. Zhanlis

Who have ... consciousness and self-esteem ... They ... are not afraid that others are smarter than them, more educated or more beautiful ... Likewise, they do not consider themselves significantly superior to those whom they in turn surpass, because all this seems to them to have very little values ​​in comparison with good will, for which they only respect themselves and which they assume in every person. – R. Descartes

Whoever preserves dignity in trouble teaches courage to worthy people and serves as a reproach to bad people. – W. Foscolo

True dignity is like a river: the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. – M. Montaigne

Dignity creates rigor of behavior. – Shi Ching

Virtues, elevating you, humiliate another, while defects, allowing others to laugh at you without malice, elevate them in their own eyes. – A. Morois

The two things we hold most dear are our reputation and our lives. Doesn't it hurt just to think that the most despicable slander can deprive us of the first and the most fragile weapon of the second? – C. Colton

The feeling of humanity is offended when people do not respect human dignity in others, and it is even more offended and suffers when a person in himself does not respect his own dignity. – V. Belinsky

If pride in a person were prudent, how much meanness the world would not see. - I. Zeime.

Pride and laziness are the sources of all vices. – B. Paskach

If pride screams, then love is silent. – F. Gerfo

Every dignity, every strength is calm - precisely because they are confident in themselves. – V. Belinsky

A good name belongs to every honest person, but I concluded a good name in the glory of my Fatherland, and all my deeds tended to its prosperity. Self-love, often a submissive veil of fleeting passions, never controlled my actions. I forgot myself where it was necessary to think about the common good. My life was a harsh school, but my morals were innocent and my natural generosity facilitated my labors: my feelings were free, and I myself was firm. – A. Suvorov

Too much dignity sometimes makes a person unfit for society: they don’t go to the market with gold bars - they need a bargaining chip, especially a trifle. – N. Chamfort

The dignity of human life is in struggle. – A. Herzen

Pride, dignity - a reward for good deeds, for decency. – V. Zubkov

Pride is the source of the death and corruption of man; it encourages a person to deviate from the beaten path, to get involved in innovations; it gives rise to the desire to lead people who have gone astray, who have embarked on the path of death; it makes a man prefer to be a teacher of lies and deceit than a student in the school of truth. – M. Montaigne

Self-esteem develops only by the position of an independent owner ... - N. Chernyshevsky

Human virtues, like fruits, have their seasons. – F. La Rochefoucauld

A noble person will be sincerely proud of himself and appreciate himself if he deserves it, but he will never show it. - D. Hume.

When we say that someone's good qualities are excessive, they appear when they do not ask and where they do not expect, then such qualities cause rejection. - V. Lenin.

We are most proud of what we do not have. - Akutagawa Ryunosuke

We should be proud of the exploits of our fathers and grandfathers, it is unworthy to belittle them. - A. Pushkin.

Everything can be proud, even the lack of pride. – V. Klyuchevsky

When people whose opinion we value deny us the virtues that we have, we usually lose heart, as if we had lost them, and when they ascribe to us virtues that we did not suspect in ourselves, we take courage and try to acquire them. – V. Klyuchevsky

Those who do not understand their purpose are most often deprived of self-esteem. – F. Dostoevsky

Whoever speaks of his own virtues is ridiculous, but whoever does not recognize them is stupid. – F. Chesterfield

All our dignity is in the ability to think. Thought alone elevates us, not space and time, in which we are nothing. Let us try to think with dignity: this is the basis of morality. – B. Pascal

Before proceeding to a discussion of how to get rid of pride, first we will deal with this concept itself. This word usually means exorbitant pride, arrogance, selfishness, arrogance, etc. Everyone roughly knows what pride is, but rarely does anyone recognize it in themselves, and if they notice, they do not see any danger in it and, moreover, are not going to fight it. But sooner or later it will make itself felt and bear its terrible fruits.

How to get rid of pride: Orthodoxy, Catholicism

Pride in Orthodoxy is included in the eight sinful passions along with gluttony, fornication, greed, anger, sadness, despondency and vanity.

In Catholicism, pride is included in the seven main sinful passions along with gluttony, fornication, greed, anger, despondency and envy.

Before giving an answer to the question of how to get rid of the sin of pride, it should be noted that it is not at all the same thing. Pride is, in general, the most common property of any sinner. We all fall into the same from time to time - this is the great degree when this sinful passion turns into a dominant characteristic of the personality and fills it. These people usually do not hear anyone, they say about such people: "There is a lot of pride, but little intelligence."

islam about pride

Pride is when a person boasts of his achievements before the Creator, forgetting that it was from Him that he received them. This disgusting quality makes a person too arrogant, he begins to believe that he himself can achieve everything without the help of God, and therefore he never thanks God for everything he has.

How to get rid of pride? Islam, by the way, is also of the opinion that pride is a great sin, which causes a number of other sins.

According to the Qur'an, a genie named Iblis refused to obey Allah's order and prostrate to Adam. The jinn said that he was better than a man because he was made of fire and not clay. After that, he was cast down from heaven and swore to lead believers astray.

How to recognize the sin of pride? How to get rid of it?

Pride grows on the soil of well-being, and not when everything is bad. In euphoria, it is almost impossible to notice. But when it grows, it will be very difficult to stop it. She plunges a person into the illusion of her greatness and then suddenly throws him into the abyss. Therefore, it is better to notice it earlier, recognize it and, accordingly, begin an uncompromising struggle with it. Let's pay attention to the signs of its manifestation.

An indication of pride

• Frequent resentment and intolerance towards other people, or rather their imperfection.
• Constant blaming other people for their life problems.
• Uncontrolled irritability and disrespect for other people.
• Constant thoughts about one's own greatness and uniqueness, and therefore superiority over others.
• The need for someone to constantly admire and praise you.
• Absolute intolerance of criticism and unwillingness to correct their shortcomings.
• Inability to ask for forgiveness.
• Full confidence in their infallibility; the desire to argue and prove their merits.
• Insubordination and stubbornness, which lies in the fact that a person cannot adequately and calmly accept the lessons of fate.

When pathos grows, the joy in the heart fades, dissatisfaction and discontent come to replace it. Only now some people, noticing in themselves all these negative signs of pride, begin to resist, while others become its victims.

Pride can be dealt with until it has grown to a gigantic size, figuratively speaking, has not taken power over the soul and mind. And we urgently need to get down to business, but how to deal with pride?

Fighting methods

1. No matter how high your achievements, you should try to be interested in people who have achieved more, who should be respected and learned from them.
2. Learn humility, realize the greatness and infinite potential of every human soul. Accept your insignificance before God - the creator of all life on earth and in heaven.
3. Don't take all credits and accomplishments for yourself. Always thank the Lord for everything good and bad that happens to you, for various trials and lessons. The feeling of gratitude is always more pleasant to experience than the feeling of contempt for others.
4. Find a person who is adequate, honest and good, so that he constructively expresses his opinion about you, all the shortcomings noticed need to be worked out and eradicated. And this is the best cure for pride.
5. One should pass on one's best experience to people, try to help them disinterestedly with love. The manifestation of true love will surely cleanse the heart of pride. Those who do not start sharing their positive experiences with others in time will only increase the growth of pride and pseudo-greatness.
6. Try to be sincere and first of all to yourself. Look for kindness in yourself so that there is an opportunity not to accumulate resentment in yourself, but to find strength and courage in yourself to ask for forgiveness from those whom we have offended and learn to admit our mistakes.

self-deprecation

Many are interested in another interesting question - how to get rid of pride and two extreme points, one concept implies high self-esteem, the other - underestimated. Let's talk about her a little.

If we already know about pride, then let's dwell a little on such a property as self-abasement, which is based on incorrect self-esteem and negative self-analysis. A person begins to belittle himself and his dignity in comparison with other people. He may not like his appearance and qualities, he constantly criticizes himself, they say, "I'm not handsome", "I'm fat", "I'm a slob", "I'm a complete fool", etc.

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Self-deprecation, like pride, can be used as a tool to influence how others evaluate and perceive you, so as not to get a painful blow to your self-esteem.

In a situation of self-humiliation, a person himself is the first to criticize, scold and reproach himself, thereby he forestalls possible negative reactions to him from others. Such people really believe that they are worse than others. Shyness also shows a developed inferiority complex in a person.

Causes of self-deprecation

Where does it come from? Usually it can be some negative experience from early childhood, associated with the inability to evaluate oneself and others.

Self-deprecation becomes an inadequate way to protect yourself from potential emotional threats. It can be used as a mask that a person puts on himself in adulthood to hide behind it.

Self-deprecation, as a rule, really appears from early childhood, often this is due to the inability of the child to meet all the high standards and expectations of the parents, especially if the parents are some outstanding people. They expect that their child must necessarily correspond to their ideals, possess talents and ambitious aspirations.

Mask of impotence

But the child does not reach the bar set by the parents, then he blames himself, considers himself mediocre, wrong self-esteem comes to his mind, because the parents are unhappy with him.

When a child grows up, that's when the fear appears that he can never be as good as many people around him, that they can't like him, so success, happiness and love will never come to him. He begins to openly declare that he is a loser. A deep internal conflict is brewing and a chain of complexes is formed that hide under a mask that means "do not pay any attention to me" and "do not expect anything special from me." He is not used to praise and does not accept it, because he does not believe in himself.

Vanity

In parallel, another question arises - how to get rid of pride and vanity. And it's all - the links of one chain. Where there is pride, there is vanity. The meaning of this concept is that a person constantly wants to look better than he really is, he feels a constant need to confirm his superiority, which means that he surrounds himself with flattering friends.

Related concepts of vanity also include pride, pride, arrogance, arrogance and "star fever". A vain person is only interested in his person.

Vanity is like a drug, without which, addicted to it, you can no longer live. Yes, and envy immediately attaches itself nearby, and they go hand in hand. Since a vain person does not tolerate any competition, if someone is ahead of him, black envy begins to gnaw at him.

Perishable glory

As mentioned above, vanity, along with pride, is included in the eight sinful passions in Orthodoxy.

I would like to add to everything that vanity is when a person constantly strives for vain, that is, vain and empty glory. The word "vain", in turn, means "soon and perishable."

Position, high post, fame - things on earth are short-lived and unreliable. Any earthly glory is ashes and dust, simply nothing compared to the glory that the Lord has prepared for His loving children.

Arrogance

Now we need to talk about how to get rid of pride and arrogance. You need to find out right away, then it will be easier to understand and cope with this passion. Arrogance is self-exaltation, arrogance and contempt for another person.

Summing up the discussion of how to get rid of pride, arrogance and the like, it should be noted that the fight against them is possible only after a person takes his behavior and words under strict control, starts doing good deeds, takes care of himself as much as possible. surrounding people and not expect gratitude and payment for this.

We must try to get rid of the thought of our own significance, specialness and greatness. Look at yourself from the outside, listen to what you say, what you think, how you behave, put yourself in the place of others.

Pride, arrogance and vanity will prevent a person from living an independent and fulfilling life. And before they destroy you, start fighting them. Only then will you be able to rejoice and live in peace with yourself and with the world around you. And you will no longer want to blame anyone for your sins, and there will be a desire to thank the Lord for everything.

The world will shine with different colors, only then a person can comprehend the main thing: the meaning of life is LOVE. And only for her he should strive.

The proud man is rarely a grateful person: he is always convinced that he receives less than he deserves.
G. Beecher.

Pride - a noble passion - is not blind to its own shortcomings. This is what arrogance is.
G. Lichtenberg

Pride is deprived of the best quality of vices - it is incapable of hiding.
F. Bacon

Pride comes from insufficient reflection and ignorance of oneself. Knowledge comes to us along with modesty.
D. Addison

Pride is inherent in all people: the only difference is where and when they show it.
F. La Rochefoucauld

Pride often stirs up envy in us, and that same pride often helps us deal with it.
F. La Rochefoucauld

Pride is the comforter of the weak.
L. Vauvenargues

Pride is a kind of contempt for everyone else but oneself.
Theophrastus

Pride is a slippery slope, below which arrogance and vanity await us.
A. Decursel

Pride, combined with strength, ennobles, but, combined with weakness, degrades.
Carmen Silva

Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.
D. Lowell

The pride of lowly people is to constantly talk about themselves, but of high people - not to talk about themselves at all.
Voltaire

A proud person is definitely overgrown with an ice crust. Through this bark there is no way for any other feeling.
L. Tolstoy

A proud and noble heart, having experienced strong passions, avoids being afraid of them, but does not condescend to love affairs; in the same way, the heart that knew friendship will not condescend to the base, selfish.
N. Chamfort

We are most proud of what we do not have.
Akutagawa Ryunosuke

Every dignity, every strength is calm - precisely because they are confident in themselves.
V. Belinsky

The feeling of humanity is offended when people do not respect human dignity in others, and it is even more offended and suffers when a person in himself does not respect his own dignity.
V. Belinsky

A moment is enough to become a hero, but a lifetime is needed to become a worthy person.
P. Brula

There is much more merit in being able to overcome vices than in not having them.
P. Buast

The highest dignity is inaccessible to the understanding of the crowd, the latter willingly praises the virtues of a lower order; average virtues arouse in her surprise, or rather, amazement; as for the highest virtues, she does not even have a concept of them.
F. Bacon

Be most proud of what owes you the least.
P. balepu

There is nothing more useful than a good name, and nothing creates it so firmly as dignity.
L. Vauvenargues

Infinitely small people have infinitely great pride.
Voltaire

Be proud only of the victories you have won over yourself.
J. Wolfram

It is no small merit to recognize as ignorance what others consider to be knowledge, and openly admit that you do not know what you really do not know.
P. Gassendi

The dignity of human life is in struggle.
A. Herzen

Who have ... consciousness and self-esteem ... They ... are not afraid that others are smarter than them, more educated or more beautiful ... Likewise, they do not consider themselves significantly superior to those whom they in turn surpass, because all this seems to them to have very little values ​​in comparison with good will, for which they only respect themselves and which they assume in every person.
R. Descartes

The deepest characteristic of human nature is the passionate desire of people to be appreciated.
W. James

Those who do not understand their purpose are most often deprived of self-esteem.
F. Dostoevsky

Virtues are not as conspicuous as vices.
Ancient Ind.

Pride is often a barrier to true greatness.
M. Zhanlis

If pride screams, then love is silent.
F. Gerfo

If we all had reasonable pride, there would not be so many abominations in the world.
I. Zeime

Pride, dignity - a reward for good deeds, for decency.
V. Zubkov

The obligation towards oneself ... is that a person maintains human dignity in himself.
I. Kant

Everything can be proud, even the lack of pride.
V. Klyuchevsky

When the people we value deny us the virtues that we have, we usually lose heart, as if we had lost them, and when they ascribe to us virtues that we did not suspect in ourselves, we are encouraged and try to acquire them.
V. Klyuchevsky

The dignity of each person depends only on how he shows himself in his actions.
A. Knigge

The two things we hold most dear are our reputation and our lives. Doesn't it hurt just to think that the most despicable slander can deprive us of the first and the most fragile weapon of the second?
C. Colton

We quickly notice the slightest advantages in ourselves and slowly discover the shortcomings.
J. La Bruyère

It is as reasonable to give credit to one's virtues in private as it is ridiculous to exalt them in the presence of others.
F. La Rochefoucauld

If we were not overcome by pride, we would not complain about the pride of others.
F. La Rochefoucauld

No matter how prone people are to wrong judgments, yet they show injustice to real virtues less often than favor to imaginary ones.
F. La Rochefoucauld

Our pride is often heightened by the shortcomings we have overcome.
F. La Rochefoucauld

The virtues of a man should not be judged by his good qualities, but by how he uses them.
F. La Rochefoucauld

Truly extraordinary virtues are possessed by those who have managed to earn the praise of their envious people.
F. La Rochefoucauld

Human virtues, like fruits, have their seasons.
F. La Rochefoucauld

If the virtues go on longer than necessary, are not revealed when it is necessary, and not where it is necessary, then they are disadvantages.
V. Lenin

My life experience has convinced me that people who have no faults have very few virtues.
A. Lincoln

If someone offended me - this is his business, such is his inclination, such is his temper; I have my own disposition, such as is given to me by nature, and I will remain true to my nature in my actions.
Marcus Aurelius

True dignity is like a river: the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
M. Montaigne

Virtues, elevating you, humiliate another, while defects, allowing others to laugh at you without malice, raise them in their own.
A. Morua

All our dignity is in the ability. Thought alone elevates us, not space and time, in which we are nothing. Let us try to think with dignity: this is the basis of morality.
B. Pascal

It is not only possible, but also necessary, to be proud of the glory of one's ancestors; to disrespect it is shameful cowardice.
A. Pushkin

Extreme pride or extreme humiliation is extreme ignorance of oneself.
B. Spinoza

The name is the property of every honest person, but I concluded a good name in the glory of my Fatherland, and all my deeds tended to its prosperity. Self-love, often a submissive veil of fleeting passions, never controlled my actions. I forgot myself where it was necessary to think about the common good. My life was a harsh school, but my morals were innocent and my natural generosity facilitated my labors: my feelings were free, and I myself was firm.
A. Suvorov

Pride is not at all the same as consciousness of human dignity. Pride increases with external success, the consciousness of one's human dignity, on the contrary, increases with external humiliation.
L. Tolstoy

Excessive pride is the sign of an insignificant soul.
I. Turgenev

Whoever preserves dignity in trouble teaches courage to worthy people and serves as a reproach to bad people.
W. Foscolo

Gordey hates the pride of others.
B. Franklin

Judge the merits of a stranger by his deeds; in deeds, the fruits of even secret intent are always exposed.
"Khitopadesha"

The more we talk about our virtues, the less they believe in them.
N. Chernyshevsky

Self-esteem develops only in the position of an independent master ...
N. Chernyshevsky

Whoever speaks of his own virtues is ridiculous, but whoever does not recognize them is stupid.
F. Chesterfield

Market people are proud of their dexterity and ingenuity. But life passes the way, as if in the ignorance of a child: they are prone to fraud and boast of extravagance, they never think how their life will end.
Chen Zian

The dignity of people is the dignity of precious stones, which, being of a certain size, purity, perfection, have a certain and indicated price, but, being above this brand, have no price and do not find buyers at all.
N. Chamfort

Only those who have deeply studied morals are able to recognize all the signs that distinguish pride from vanity. The first holds her head high, imperturbable, courageous, calm, adamant; the second is base, insecure, cowardly, fussy and changeable. Pride, as it were, adds height to people, vanity only inflates them.
N. Chamfort

Too much dignity sometimes makes a person unfit for society: they don’t go to the market with gold bars - they need a bargaining chip, especially a trifle.
N. Chamfort

Dignity creates rigor of behavior.
Shi Ching

Pride is coming from within, therefore, a direct high regard for oneself; on the contrary, vanity is the desire to achieve such high esteem from without ...
A. Schopenhauer

The cheapest kind of pride is national pride. She discovers that the one obsessed with her suffers from a lack of individual qualities that he could be proud of - otherwise he would have no reason to grab onto what he shares with so many millions. He who has considerable personal superiority, on the contrary, will most clearly understand the shortcomings of his nation, having them constantly before his eyes. But every pitiful dupe, who has nothing in the world to be proud of, grabs at the last resource of pride - the nation to which he belongs: he calms down on this and is gratefully ready at random to defend all the shortcomings and stupidities that are characteristic of it. .
A. Schopenhauer

The highest approval of merit and merit consists in silently accepting them as due.
R. Emerson

Pride eradicates all vices except itself.
R. Emerson

Genuine, sincere pride, or self-respect, if only it is well hidden and at the same time really justified, must certainly be characteristic of a man of honor ...
D. Hume

Nothing can be more commendable than the consciousness of our own dignity in those cases when we really have valuable qualities.
D. Hume

There are three categories of people: arrogant, proud and others. I have never met others.
Auguste Detheuf

To be generous means to give more than you can; being proud means taking less than you need.
Kahlil Gibran

Modesty can be false, but not pride.
Jules Renard

Those who are proud of their humility are proud that they are not proud.
Robert Barton

Pride, as it were, adds height to people, vanity only inflates them.
Nicola Chamfort

Vanity is the pride of other people.
Sasha Guitry

Pride is a luxury that a woman in love cannot afford.
Claire Luce

One can be proud of everything, even the lack of pride, just as one can become stupefied by everything, even by one's own mind.
Vasily Klyuchevsky

The cheapest pride is national pride.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Living someone else's life. Psychotherapeutic story. One beautiful summer a flower grew in the field. Maybe a biologist will say what it's called, but I don't know. Common wild flower. It had white leaves, and some whitish squiggles protruded from its core. On a rather thick stem, under the leaves, there was some kind of thickening, maybe there his main vitality accumulated, or maybe seeds, I won’t tell you either, because the story in general is not about that. It did not grow in the depths of the field, but on the outskirts, where there was a Temple with a garden across the road, and our flower could see what flowers were growing in that garden. Once, when he was just starting to grow up, he was still very small, he could not even be called a flower, he heard two people walking along the road and admired the roses that grew in the garden. The flower thought, “Oh! I’m probably also a rose, I’ll grow up, and they will also admire me. ” Several days have passed since that incident, and now our flower has begun to bloom. He was so gentle, innocent, pure, exuded such a wonderful delicate aroma that all the bees gathered to him for nectar. He blossomed and saw those same roses in the garden. He was fascinated by them, they are so tall, bright, and stand so proudly in the garden, you will not meet such people in the whole field! But the bees don't fly to them. “And what do they understand bees, they are probably just not allowed into the garden. But nothing, thought the flower. This is how the life of the flower went. He looked at the roses in the garden, watched how they were being watered and was angry at his fate because only the rain was watering him, and although, in principle, the rain was enough for him, he thought, since the roses are being watered, then it must be necessary to become even more beautiful. He watched the roses toil in the daytime from the sun and also toiled, sighing and groaning, although he himself, in his soul, really liked it when it shines on him and warms him with its warmth, such bliss ran through the stem from this, but he himself did not confessed. He studied the manners, tastes and desires of roses and already felt himself one of them, but he considered himself a rose that fate had cheated, because he grows in a field, not in a garden. Now, if he grew up in a garden, then he would be the best of roses, and all the roses would envy him and take an example from him. Maybe even then he would openly rejoice in the sun, and these roses would not hide from the sun like a bore, but also looking at him, rejoiced, and in general, he, of course, would change a lot in the life of roses. This is how the days of our flower passed day by day in plans and dreams about life with roses. Sometimes, believing himself to be a rose, he imagined that he could not be compared with any of the wildflowers that lived next door to him. He looked at them and thought, “Oh God! How simple they are! Just look, they have so few leaves, they are not tall, bees constantly sit on them. But at times, he envied these wildflowers that they are in their place and live happily for themselves, enjoy the sun, expose their leaves to the rain, laugh when they are tickled by bees and generously share pollen with them, and nothing worries them. They are happy flowers. And then one day, when his days were already running out and the autumn breeze blew, he heard the steps of people. “Here is my chance!” thought the flower. “Now they will notice me, they will notice that I am a rose and they will definitely take it and transplant it into the garden. Oh, how they will be surprised to see me among these wildflowers. He was all stretched out, straightened up, filled with juices, his curls began to emit that same wonderful delicate aroma that he exuded when he first blossomed, and now he was waiting in all his glory for people to notice him and take him to that garden, to the roses. And they really noticed him, one person sat down to him, breathed in his wonderful aroma and sincerely admired him: “Just look at what a wonderful field flower, what a delicate aroma it has. You know, I always admire wild flowers, each of them is wonderful in its own way, it can never be compared with these half-living roses, which you have to feed and spray all the time with all kinds of chemicals, which you can’t even smell afterwards. Just look at the harmony in the field, not a single gardener will make such beauty in the garden. Our flower, which was noticed, was in a daze. "So! So I'm not a rose. So all my life I didn’t allow myself to smell in vain, I hid from the sun and scolded the rain, instead of enjoying life like the rest of the flowers. All my life I have striven to become what I have never been in my life, and forbade myself to be who I really am ?! ”, the flower wept bitterly. The next day, our flower finally noticed the sun, noticed how much he likes it, put his leaves to him, absorbed the fresh breeze, let the bees in, and for the first time in his life he was pollinated and felt happy that now he will have seeds , and next year new, unique, wonderful, field flowers will grow. Author: Boldeeva N. A.