True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

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"Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven."

- Tryon Edwards

Relationships

"Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so."

- Tryon Edwards

Growth

"If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others."

- Tryon Edwards

Education

"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to use its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others."

- Tryon Edwards

Education

"Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine."

- Tryon Edwards

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"It is not what you look like on the outside, but what you are on the inside that counts."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"It is the heart that makes a person beautiful, not the outward appearance."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

- Buddha

Belief

"It’s not always possible to do what we want to do, but it’s important to believe in something before you actually do it."

- Might Guy

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"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."

- Josephus Daniels

Belief