“Service is the rent we pay for the life we have been given.” — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed-then I believe we are getting closer to God. — Daniel Ortega Copy Share Image
Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps. — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
Selfishness is a bad habit. Thats why I always rationally think through my decisions to act without regard for others. — Benson Bruno Copy Share Image
It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it. — Roz Chast Copy Share Image
We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness behind. — John H. Groberg Copy Share Image
An artist has to be selfish; otherwise, he's not true to his own art. — Peter Frampton Copy Share Image
Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it. — Douglas Horton Copy Share Image
I was pretty much a warmonger and a pretty greedy guy. I always wanted to make as much money as I possibly… — Ed Schultz Copy Share Image
Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good… — Ouida Copy Share Image
No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers.… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
“grew increasingly impatient and angry as I compared their selflessness and sacrifice with the self-promotion and selfishness of power-hungry politicians and others—in… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
Its' the simple things in life, we men forget. We hear when she talks, but we don't hear what she said. We… — London Mond Copy Share Image
It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“When Buda mentioned that everything is an illusion, he was not being metaphysical but truly practical. When you thin you are more… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“And it is then, when The Cause, with its greedy mouth, tries to take more from you, tries to take that part… — D.J. Molles Copy Share Image
There is no hell like that of a selfish heart, and there is no misfortune so great as that of not being… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
“He asked me not to kill myself - asked, not told. His wife had done that, he told me, and it was… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“The materialistic and selfish quality of contemporary life is not inherent in the human condition. Much of what appears ‘natural’ today dates… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
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