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“The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different things.”

Giving Different Self Kids Self Esteem Esteem Different Things Shy

Author:Magnus

“The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What looks like a giving hand is often a holding on for dear life. Take away our holy duties and you leave our lives puny and meaningless. 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.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.”

Giving Seems Grows Please Ambition Esteem Seeming

Book:The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B..

Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B..

“The highest point of humility consists in not merely acknowledging one's abjection, but in taking pleasure therein, not from any want of breadth or courage, but to give the more glory to God's Divine Majesty, and to esteem one's neighbour more highly than one's self.”

Want Giving Self Pleasure Humility Divine Highest Glory Esteem Majesty Neighbour Glory Of God Breadth Abjection

Book:The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]

Source: The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]