Emmanuel

“These are the few ways we can practice humility:

To speak as little as possible of one's self.

To mind one's own business.

Not to want to manage other people's affairs.

To avoid curiosity.

To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.

To pass over the mistakes of others.

To accept insults and injuries.

To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked.

To be kind and gentle even under provocation.

Never to stand on one's dignity.

To choose always the hardest.”
― Mother Teresa, The Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living

“So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”
― Plato, The Republic

“A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe