be humble

It’s so much more admirable to be humble and be considered the lowest due to a good heart than to be the most popular and loved celebrity because you went out and acted selfishly and arrogantly. It’s good to be content with who you are even when your power lures (as T.D. Jakes puts it) are unknown to the world (in other words the good qualities of your heart) because you are more admirable in knowing that you don’t need their approval to make you happy. You can be happy with yourself because you know that deep down it’s you who is more, because you didn’t have anything you had to prove. Arrogance I’ve found is a result of insecurity and fear of rejection. But when people just don’t care about rejection, and are content with who they are, THAT makes them more of men and women than showing off, cause they didn’t need your approval to know that. That is cool, not a show off. It’s really the truly courageous and truly gifted people that we never think of in this world, cause they’re not promoting anything. They don’t need your permission to be happy. They know they have the right to be happy and they take it without fearing what others think. They truly respect themselves. That is such a beautiful thing about humility.