Charles Kingsley: If you want to be miserable, think much about yourself; about what you want…
If you want to be miserable, think much about yourself; about what you want, what you like; what respect people ought to pay you, and what people think of you.
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- Humility is giving up your right to be right for something better.
- The antidote for unhappiness is to choose to be happy for others when good things happen for them.
- Humility is not silence; it is not insecurity (not speaking up or out because you are concerned about how you might look or how people may feel about you). Humility is giving up your right to be right, for what is best overall.
- Attitude is willingness. Whatever you are not willing to do, you are not able to benefit from.
- Interest yourself in others and you will be too busy to indulge in self-love.
- It is worth a thousand pounds a year to have the habit of looking on the bright side of things.