Humble people walk comfortably in every group. No one is either too beneath them or too above them for their own sense of well-being. They are who they are, people with as much to give as to get, and they know it. And because they're at ease with themselves, they can afford to be open with others.. Having discovered who we are and having opened ourselves to life and having learned to be comfortable with it, we know that God is working in us. We know, most of all, that whatever happens we have nothing to fear.. we are free of the false hopes and false faces and false needs that once held us down. We can fly now. Let all the others scratch and grapple for the plastic copy of life. We have found the real thing. .Joan D. Chittister
About This Quote
Advice offered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Humble people walk comfortably in every group. No one is either too beneath them or too above them for their own sense of well-being.
They are who they are, people with as much to give as to get, and they know it. And because they're at ease with themselves, they can afford to be open with others.” This quote is meant to encourage us all to rise up and challenge ourselves, even when we are on the lowest rungs of the ladder.
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