Variant translation: Somebody must have slandered Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning. The Trial

"Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today” 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos

There’s no value in suffering when it’s done without purpose. The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*Ck

Pride is an established conviction of one's own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without. Parerga and Paralipomena