#modest

We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or species. We all know that the ordinary, everyday stories of individuals are riches, more humane, and much more joyful. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#art #individuality #life #museums #art

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#fact #greater #in fact #make #modesty

A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white. ↗

— Clementine Paddleford

#passionate #scarlet #tiny #tipped #white

Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life. ↗

— Nam June Paik

#deny #element #good #half #high-tech

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids. ↗

— Chely Wright

#grew #house #i #jobs #kids

...when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your Frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery. ↗

— Tyler Perry

#mystery #wisdom #life

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#giver #hand #hardest #keep #love

The good times are killing me ↗

— Modest Mouse

#music #music

Saatnya angin berbau asin datang dari laut. Hari ini, aku akan bermain gekkin untukmu. Suara denting senar melebur bersama udara, meresap dalam panca indera. Terlihat seperti wewangian apakah nada-nada ini... Dengan terlahirnya lagu ini, keberadaanmu mendapatkan makna baru. Kalau bersedia, bernyanyilah bersamaku. Masih ada waktu sebelum gelap. Waktu yang paling indah. ↗

— Hitoshi Ashinano

#modesty #mono-no-aware #music #music

Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success. ↗

— Bobbe Sommer

#happiness #modesty #opinion #precondition #regard