“Oh Lord, it’s hard to be humble, when you’re perfect in every way.” Being humble isn’t anything like how it appears in the external world. There is a true humility that we can attain much more easily than we might have thought.
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"No good deed goes unpunished."
The person most frequently credited as the originator of the phrase is playwright Clare Boothe Luce. Also credited have been playwright Noel Coward, writer Oscar Wilde, journalist Walter Winchell and the late Washington Post writer Bill Gold. The original idea is probably an ancient proverb.
Appearing cynical on the surface, a closer examination of human nature reveals the False Personality to be incredibly vengeful and petty due to its hubris.
Plato has Socrates say, "An unexamined life is not worth living." The reason no good deed goes unpunished is because most people are living lives not worth living. If you feel a sting, that probably means you are spending more time and energy examining the lives of others than you are examining your own.
well that puts things in to perspective. They say humility is remaining teachable.However that swing between I need your help, but I am not worthy and I don’t need your help beacause I am just the most enlinghtened human being that ever walked the planet seems to me has just been realized in me and that I can walk with more understanding of that word humility and let the events yield its message where I can be cool, calm and collected enough that I can possibly see what my part in it could be.