"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

#Humility Quotes #Humble Quotes #Pride Quotes

“Filipinos are not a reading people, and despite the compulsory course on the life and works of Rizal today, from the elementary to the university levels, it is accepted that the 'Noli me Tangere' and 'El Filibusterismo' are highly regarded but seldom read (if not totally ignored). Therefore one asks, how can unread novels exert any influence?”
“Every effort is made to control information. Secrecy is just one of the toggles on their control board. The mindset is in place, and they've done a lot of hiring over eight years, not just political appointees. And they've done a lot of firing or driving people out who might have countermanded or resisted. So, institutionally, it's not going to be simply a matter of flipping the switch to undo it. You're going have to bring in people dedicated to transparency, and you have to demonstrate that there are rewards for candor.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures; nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven: In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths; Beneath her steady ray The desert circle spreads Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky. How beautiful is night!”
“Thereâ€™s no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.”
“The best fiction stays with you and changes you.”

Source : Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14, 2010.
“So many people have fat bank accounts! But when God wants them to give they canâ€™t give. When God wants them to do certain things they canâ€™t do it â€“ then theyâ€™re not really rich. They are not really! Because they do not have the financial abundance to obey Godâ€™s will. .”
“Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.”
“It's never been about football, but about becoming the best and fullest person I could be. And to think that I went from the kid with a GPA in the basement to going to college on a football scholarship-I was thankful and humbled by how far I'd come in just a few years. I knew that miracles really do happen.”

Source : Michael Oher (2012). “I Beat The Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond”, p.148, Penguin

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