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You have to surrender to something outside yourself to gain strength within yourself. You have to conquer your desire to get what you crave. Success leads to the greatest failure, which is pride.
Today, teachers tend to look for their students� intellectual strengths, so they can cultivate them. But a century ago, professors tended to look for their students� moral weaknesses, so they could correct them.
“I began to see what the great teachers of religion meant when they said that humility is the greatest of virtues,� she later wrote, “and if you can’t learn it, God will teach it to you by humiliation.
