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#1

“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.”
― Thomas Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1

tags: abyss, facts, humble, inspirational, learning, nature, open-minded, peace, peace-of-mind, preconceptions, preparation, risk, science

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#2

“These are the few ways we can practice humility:

To speak as little as possible of one's self.

To mind one's own business.

Not to want to manage other people's affairs.

To avoid curiosity.

To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.

To pass over the mistakes of others.

To accept insults and injuries.

To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked.

To be kind and gentle even under provocation.

Never to stand on one's dignity.

To choose always the hardest.”
― Mother Teresa, The Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living

tags: acceptance, bossy, cheerful, curiosity, difficulty, dignity, dislike, forgiveness, forgotten, gentle, gossip, humble, humility, injury, insult, kind, mistakes, provocation, quiet, rejection, selfish

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#3

“I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.”
― Thomas Henry Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

tags: knowledge, possibility, science, skepticism, thinking

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#4

“For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity. By about this time next year I expect to have shot past you, and to find you pitching into me for being more Darwinian than yourself. However, you have set me going, and must just take the consequences, for I warn you I will stop at no point so long as clear reasoning will take me further.

{Letter of support to Charles Darwin on his theory of evolution}”
― Thomas Henry Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1

tags: biology, charles-darwin, consequences, darwin, darwinian, doctrines, reasoning, science, support

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#5

“For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he is fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

tags: believer, christianity, fearless, flaws, honesty, humble, humility, imperfect, imperfections, pride, righteous, righteousness, self-righteous, self-righteousness

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#6

“I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian

tags: existential, existentialism, humble, humility, self-loathing, self-realization

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#7

“Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

tags: being-heard, ceo, discernment, doctor, humble, judge, king, lowly, pastor, ruler, society, underdog, voice-of-the-nations, world

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#8

“I wish I could describe the feeling of being at sea, the anguish, frustration, and fear, the beauty that accompanies threatening spectacles, the spiritual communion with creatures in whose domain I sail. There is a magnificent intensity in life that comes when we are not in control but are only reacting, living, surviving. I am not a religious man per se. My own cosmology is convoluted and not in line with any particular church or philosphy. But for me, to go to sea is to glimpse the face of God. At sea i am reminded of my insignificance-- of all men's insignificance. It is a wonderful feeling to be so humbled.”
― Steve Callahan

tags: callahan, humble, ocean, sea, steve

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#9

“Humility is not a one time lesson that comes when you have lost everything. It is a daily reminder of how far we have come, yet still short of who we can be through HIS guidance. Blessed is the soul that can recognize that he isn’t moving mountains, but God is for him.”
― Shannon Alder

tags: god-s-love, gratitude, humble, humility, prayerful

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#10

“What made her most beautiful, was the way she quietly touched those around her unknowingly changing the lives of the many, she smiled at. She didn't want praise; approval or admiration, she just wanted all of whom she loved to be the most authentic side of themselves & openly living to the means of their hearts & truth.”
― Nikki Rowe, Once a Girl, Now a Woman

tags: acceptance, authentic, change, happiness, humble, inspirational, love, self-help, transformation, truth

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#11

“When chasing success; Your greatest asset is not what you get from it but who you become because of it.”
― Nikki Rowe

tags: abundance, goodness, humble, success, wisdom

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#12

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: helping-others, make-a-difference, purpose, purpose-of-life

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#13

“Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.”
― Dean Koontz, The Darkest Evening of the Year

tags: death, god, loss, purpose, understanding

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#14

“Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

tags: brilliant, purpose

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#15

“The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.”
― Leo Rosten

tags: inspirational, purpose, truth

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#16

“Free yourself from the complexities and drama of your life. Simplify. Look within. Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we've been blessed with.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: blessings, drama, empowerment, gratitude, inspirational, life, motivational, purpose, simplify

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#17

“When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes.”
― Thomas S. Monson

tags: faith, god, purpose, selfless-service

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#18

“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.”
― Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

tags: biology, design, disease, evolution, fear, indifference, natural-selection, purpose, science, starvation, suffering

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#19

“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

tags: growth, journey, purpose

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#20

“Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.”
― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

tags: life, purpose, truth

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#21

“Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: contentment

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#22

“I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances.”
― Andrew Weil

tags: circumstances, contentment, fulfillment, happiness, life

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#23

“Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: coffin, contentment, dark, enough, grave, humanity

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#24

“The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

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#25

“Success is getting what you want..
Happiness is wanting what you get.”
― Dale Carnegie

tags: happiness, success

668 likes

#26

“If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their lives.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

tags: contentment, death, sleep

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#27

“No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself”
― Plato

tags: contentment, music, wealth

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#28

“Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.”
― John Chrysostom

tags: contentment, happiness, inner-peace

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#29

“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”
― John Stuart Mill

tags: contentment, frugality

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