humility

<p class="default">06:01 PM, March 31, 2006</p>

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To paraphrase C.S. Lewis, Humility does not consist in handsome people trying to believe they are ugly, and clever people trying to believe they are fools... True humility is more like self-forgetfulness... It leaves people free to esteem their special talents and, with the same honesty, to esteem their neighbors'. Both the neighbors' talents and one's own are recognized as gifts and, like one's height, are not fit subjects for either inordinate pride or self-deprecation.</p>