There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.
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One may be humble out of pride.
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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.
I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.
I do think women generally are more humble.
The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
I don't find it hard to stay humble.
There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.
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