“In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.”
Source: Letters and Papers from Prison
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German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi 1906–1945Related quotes
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