#humble

I'm probably one of the must humble people you'll ever meet. ↗

— Mike James

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The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#gandhi #humble #humility #mohandas #true

Selflessness is humility. ... humility and freedom go hand in hand. Only a humble person can be free. ↗

— Jeff Wilson

#humbleness #humility #freedom

For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#comfort #disease #gout #humble #individuals

The humble are in danger when those in power disagree. ↗

— Phaedrus

#disagree #humble #power #those

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. ↗

— James M. Barrie

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Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble. ↗

— Hugh Prather

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The humble one, is the better one. ↗

— Yap Lik Hock

#behaviour #humble #humbleness #modesty #spiritual

We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing "knowledge" over kindness and compassion. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#compassion #humbleness #kindness #knowledge #open-mindedness

Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive. ↗

— Criss Jami

#assertions #beautiful #correction #divinity #foolish