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- Humility wins. Love conquers. Robin Sharma
- “Those who achieve the extraordinary are usually the most ordinary because they have nothing to prove to anybody. Be Humble.”
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Aaron Lauritsen,
100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
- “Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually – greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.”
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Criss Jami,
Healology
- Modesty is a lubricant for unpleasant intrusions. Norman Mailer
- “Thanks to their egos, instead of simply saying that they do not know, some people sometimes try very hard to remember something they know they have never known.”
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “A person’s spiritual power originates from using knowledge, compassion, charity, and personal humility to break away from custom and creed.”
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Kilroy J. Oldster,
Dead Toad Scrolls
- I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility. John Ruskin
- “I don’t know much fancy words. I think simple, I speak simple, I live simple.”
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Abhijit Naskar,
When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
- “Simplicity is the beauty of life.”
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Lailah Gifty Akita,
Think Great: Be Great!
- “No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.”
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Orson F. Whitney
- The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love. Pope Francis
- “But the Egotist is stuck somewhere between his hidden triad of pride, fear, and insecurity; he is forever fighting to prove himself, instigating battles the Humbleman has unwittingly conquered, already sealed some time ago. Yes, the day he finally accepts face-to-face such an irony as humility – the irony that humility is indeed the mother of giants, that great men, having life so large, as needed, can afford to appear small – the world will then know peace.”
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Criss Jami,
Healology
- “It doesn’t make you a bad person to want to be remembered. To want to make it to the top. To provide for yourself and your family. After all, that’s all part of the allure. There is a balance. Soccer coach Tony Adams expresses it well. Play for the name on the front of the jersey, he says, and they’ll remember the name on the back.”
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Ryan Holiday,
Ego Is the Enemy
- There’s no need to show off when you know who you are. Maxime Lagacé Click to tweet
- Humility will open more doors than arrogance ever will. Zig Ziglar Click to tweet
- “Service to humanity is service to God.”
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Lailah Gifty Akita,
Think Great: Be Great!
- If your sentence starts with “I could be wrong”, it’s a good sign you should shut your mouth or ask a question. Shane Parrish
- “A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all – but loving only himself.”
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Criss Jami,
Healology
- “The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.”
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David Steindl-Rast
- “Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that understanding it is necessary, even now, to leave the regions of our conquest – the cleared fields, the towns and cities, the highways – and re-enter the woods. For only there can a man encounter the silence and the darkness of his own absence. Only in this silence and darkness can he recover the sense of the world’s longevity, of its ability to thrive without him, of his inferiority to it and his dependence on it. Perhaps then, having heard that silence and seen that darkness, he will grow humble before the place and begin to take it in – to learn from it what it is. As its sounds come into his hearing, and its lights and colors come into his vision, and its odors come into his nostrils, then he may come into its presence as he never has before, and he will arrive in his place and will want to remain. His life will grow out of the ground like the other lives of the place, and take its place among them. He will be with them – neither ignorant of them, nor indifferent to them, nor against them – and so at last he will grow to be native-born. That is, he must reenter the silence and the darkness, and be born again.(pg. 27, “A Native Hill”)”
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Wendell Berry,
The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
- “Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.”
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Criss Jami,
Healology
- “Simplicity is the attire of those with character, sophistication is the attire of the shallow.”
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Abhijit Naskar,
When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
- “Humility empties us of ourselves so that we can be filled with all of the things that we would otherwise never realize we had missed.”
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “Our truth is whom we are but it is other truth that changes us.”
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Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
- Chickens don’t praise their own soup. Martinican proverb
- We are all stumblers, and the beauty and meaning of life are in the stumbling. David Brooks
- “[Tea-masters] have given emphasis to our natural love of simplicity, and shown us the beauty of humility. In fact, through their teachings tea has entered the life of the people.”
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Kakuzō Okakura,
The Book of Tea
- Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing, and your attitude when you have everything. Imam Ali
- In humility and honesty you’ll find pain, envy and fear but you’ll also find strength, beauty and truth. Maxime Lagacé
- True humility is contentment. Henri Frederic Amiel