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The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have read more
The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.
 The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about 
anything, and that all the read more 
 The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about 
anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to 
verify my notions have only wasted my time. 
 I was not born for Courts or great affairs;
 I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs.  
 I was not born for Courts or great affairs;
 I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs. 
What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for read more
What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God
You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
 We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of 
ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, read more 
 We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of 
ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of 
our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our 
naked skins. 
Humility is like underwear, essential, but indecent if it shows
Humility is like underwear, essential, but indecent if it shows
 Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no 
humility for a man to think read more 
 Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no 
humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though 
it might rather puzzle him to do that.