"We cannot too soon convince ourselves how..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.
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More on Humility
“How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves”
“The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.”
“I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.”
More on Ego
“I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.”
“In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.”
“All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you.”