"The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breeds pride and arrogance."

-- Eric Hoffer

#Religious Quotes #Humble Quotes #Pride Quotes

“My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, allow the imagination to be freed, and we are charged with the capability of heighetned thought. Learn to use your eyes as if they are your ears, he said, and you become connected with the ancient heritage of man, a dream world for the waking mind.”
“You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is.”
“I have actually known a case where a Woman has exterminated her whole household, and half an hour afterwards, when her rage was over and the fragments swept away, has asked what has become of her husband and her children.”

Source : Edwin A. Abbott (2015). “Flatland”, p.15, Xist Publishing
“Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.”

Source : Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.113
“What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?”
“Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution.”

Source : William Hamilton MAXWELL (1856). “Stories of Waterloo. By W. H. Maxwell”, p.8
“When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me.”
“If you play in the NFL and start for 10 years, it's not good. It is not good.”

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