“Perhaps elements like tenacity and humility combine to form a heroic compound.”
“When the right elements combine, anything is possible.”
“It was a compound of self-reliance, hard knocks, heart hunger, unceasing work, and generosity. There was no form of suffering with which the girl could not sympathize, no work she was afraid to attempt, no subject she had investigated she did not understand. These things combined to produce a breadth and depth of character altogether unusual.”
“A concrete love is a mass of emotion formed into a compound mixture of affection, care, desire and expectation.”
“Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic.”
“shishthata - humility - etiquette is the basis of culture, combination of disrespect for elders and false-ego leads to rudeness of behaviour.”