"Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own. When one becomes spiritual, the ego vanishes gradually on its own. A tree laden with fruits always bends low. Humility is a sign of greatness."

-- Ramakrishna

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“People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.”
“Preconceptions and knowledge really only get you to the edge of where creativity begins. Then intuition and faith take over, hopefully.”
“The shovel is the brother to the gun.”
“Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.”

Source : Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.232, Vintage
“I wear black diamonds instead of regular ones because Iâ€™m not flashy, just flossssy.”
“It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he.”
“All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.”
“A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.”

Source : Elsie Clews Parsons (1997). “Fear and Conventionality”, p.138, University of Chicago Press

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