Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

Madeleine LEngle
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  2. Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the answers, is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe will remind you that you very much don't. - Tom Hiddleston

  3. Life is a long lesson in humility. - J.m. Barrie

  4. LearningTo believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life. - Unknown

  5. In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same. - Eckhart Tolle

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  2. Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit

  3. It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

  4. Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand....

  5. But my memories are like a fire in winter–whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them.– Ditta

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