#humility

Saatnya angin berbau asin datang dari laut. Hari ini, aku akan bermain gekkin untukmu. Suara denting senar melebur bersama udara, meresap dalam panca indera. Terlihat seperti wewangian apakah nada-nada ini... Dengan terlahirnya lagu ini, keberadaanmu mendapatkan makna baru. Kalau bersedia, bernyanyilah bersamaku. Masih ada waktu sebelum gelap. Waktu yang paling indah. ↗

— Hitoshi Ashinano

#modesty #mono-no-aware #music #music

Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important. ↗

— Anna Kendrick

#california #common #exist #found #grew

The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect. ↗

— Junior Seau

#boys and girls #club #humility #lot #me

Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy. ↗

— Amanda Seyfried

#comedy #feel #humility #i #i feel

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#mark #pride #rather #than #vanity

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#great #humility #nearest

So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves. ↗

— Tim Tebow

#based #christ #everything #how #humble

Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred. ↗

— Yousef Munayyer

#fear #great #hatred #humility #just

No sooner do we believe that God loves us than there is an impulse to believe that He does so, not because He is Love, but because we are intrinsically lovable. The Pagans obeyed this impulse unabashed; a good man was "dear to the gods" because he was good. We, being better taught, resort to subterfuge. Far be it from us to think that we have virtues for which God could love us. But then, how magnificently we have repented! As Bunyan says, describing his first and illusory conversion, "I thought there was no man in England that pleased God better than I." Beaten out of this, we next offer our own humility to God's admiration. Surely He'll like that? Or if not that, our clear-sighted and humble recognition that we still lack humility. Thus, depth beneath depth and subtlety within subtelty, there remains some lingering idea of our own, our very own attractiveness. It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us. Surely we must have a little--however little--native luminosity? Surely we can't be quite creatures? - The Four Loves ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#humility #love

There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#life