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“Confidence is this: Wearing your triumphs with humility, and wearing your scars with pride. Many of us do precisely the opposite.”

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Umair Haque

Umair Haque is a renowned author whose works span across various fields such as business, innovation, and social change. His writings delve into the intricacies of achieving sustainable development and positive social impact in a rapidly evolving world. more

“Yet the human heart is disheartened by the most unreasonable self-judgments, because even when we take on giants, we too often confuse failure with fault, which I know too well. The only way back from such a bleak despondency is to shape humiliation into humility, to strive always to triumph over the darkness while never forgetting that the honor and the beauty are more in striving than in winning. When triumph at last comes, our efforts alone could not have won the day without that grace which surpasses all understanding and which will, if we allow it, imbue our lives with meaning.”

Life Effort Beauty Humility Faults Triumph Failures Odd Thomas Striving Disheartened Perceverance

Book:Odd Interlude

Source: Odd Interlude

“[T]he road to character is built by confronting your own weakness.”

Humility Self Discipline Discipleship

Author:David Brooks

“Kate lost a mother," I said, "but I lost a nothing." Kate doesn't feel that way," Jack assured me. But what about everybody else besides Kate? How can I ever explain to anyone what she was when she and I had no name? People need names for everything. I wasn't a relative or a friend, I was just an object of her kindness." He wiped my cheeks, saying Ssshh. I buried my face in his shoulder. True kindness is stabilizing," I went on. "When you feel it and when you express it, it becomes the whole meaning of things. Like all there is to achieve. It's life, demystified. A place out of self, a network of simple pleasures, not a waltz, but like whirls within a waltz." You're the one now," Jack said definitively. "That's why you met her. She had something she had to pass on." (p. 95)”

Death Relationships Loss Grief Kindness Labels Jack Evie Hamann

Book:Anthropology of an American Girl

Source: Anthropology of an American Girl

“We are a biological species arising from Earth’s biosphere as one adapted species among many; and however splendid our languages and cultures, however rich and subtle our minds, however vast our creative powers, the mental process is the product of a brain shaped by the hammer of natural selection upon the anvil of nature.”