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“Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.”
“It is not the pain and the wounds that are the worst. The worst is the humiliation.”
“According to Tobias, women hang around longer because theyre less capable of indignation and better at being humiliated, for what is old age but one long string of indignities? What person of integ...”
“If you are a success in life, there are places you must go and pay to be humiliated. It is an unwritten law that human beings must be tormented throughout their lives in one way or another. If you ...”
“Humiliation is the only ladder to honoring God's Kingdom.”
“Starting at the bottom is not about humiliation. It's about humilitya realistic assessment of where you are in the learning curve.”
“There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration. Pride was an entity more persistent.”
“The most dangerous men on earth are those who are afraid they are wimps”
“Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.”
“Do not confuse humility with humiliation.”
“He felt the full warmth of that pleasure from which the proud shut themselves out; the pleasure which not only goes with humiliation, but which almost is humiliation. Men who have escaped death by ...”
“He likes to humble our foes by making them seem ridiculous. As he said to me the other day, Kill a man, and you cede him honor in the eyes of the gods. Laugh at him and you shame him'.”
“[W]e all care deeply about things that seem totally inconsequential to other people. We all carry around with us the flotsam and jetsam of perceived humiliations that actually mean nothing. We are ...”
“It may be somewhat paradoxical to refer to shame as a 'feeling,' for while shame is initially painful, constant shaming leads to a deadening of feeling. Shame, like cold, is, in essence, the absenc...”
“According to Tobias, women hang around longer because they’re less capable of indignation and better at being humiliated, for what is old age but one long string of indignities? What person of inte...”
“Starting at the bottom is not about humiliation. It's about humility—a realistic assessment of where you are in the learning curve.”
