#humility

We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#pain #conscience

When you really have something to offer to the world, then you can become truly humble. A tree when it has no fruit to offer, remains erect. But when the tree is laden with fruit, it bends down. If you are all pride and ego, then nobody will be able to get anything worthwhile from you. When you have genuine humility, it is a sign that you have something to offer to mankind. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#inner-peace

In every family there is a murderer, a thief and a crazy person. And if you have a little Blue blood in the line, you can be sure there are more than one of each. ↗

— Clementine Jeffries

#family

The one who is born of the earth, dreams of the sky. The one who is born of the sky, dreams of the earth. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#humility #inspirational-attitude #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #attitude

When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#intelligence

Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question...so break 'yo'self'! ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#apology-and-attitude #ego #forgiveness #humility #mockery

He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric. ↗

— George Eliot

#humility #lifestyle #relationships #age

Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them. ↗

— St. Francis de Sales

#men

Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces. ↗

— Thomas Brooks

#men

We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or an earthquake or some other calamity, and at once courage becomes so obviously lovely and important even in human eyes that all our work is undone, and there is still at least one vice of which they feel genuine shame. The danger of inducing cowardice in our patients, therefore, is lest we produce real self-knowledge and self-loathing, with consequent repentance and humility. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#human-nature #humility #courage