The nuclear family doesn't work. It's very destructive; it grew out of selfishness. — Greg Wise Copy Share Image
Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Guard your soul against the spirit of selfishness, for it destroys the sweetness of life. — Marcia Persaud Copy Share Image
All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It is not really a small thing when in small things we resist self.” — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Fatherhood: How God blesses you out of your selfishness and floods your soul with love, all while reminding you how little you… — Mark Hart Copy Share Image
If being in a marriage or any kind of committed relationship means being selfless then you better really consider getting into one… — AmyD Copy Share Image
“Bad enough to damage a world out of ignorance. But to do it willfully, in spite of knowing the truth . . . that’s a… — David Mack Copy Share Image
When you are feeling low, and just want to give up, remind yourself that God,took his ONLY son for thee. When you… — Olivia McGarry Copy Share Image
We are too much haunted by ourselves, projecting the central shadow of self on everything around us. And then comes the Gospel… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
He was no martyr. He was no hero But in the last two years, selfishness gave way to selflessness, lies gave way… — Lex Lasry Copy Share Image
Anyone who recognizes this regime [Israel] because of the pressure of the World oppressor, or because of naiveté or selfishness, will be… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
“We humans have never had the resources in ourselves to love each other well across ethnic lines. There is too much selfishness… — John Piper Copy Share Image
My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I am generous to… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
It is not up to us to particularize, but rather to deduce that the concepts of human rights originated from the divine… — Chico Xavier Copy Share Image
Apart from selfish reasons, such as fear of punishments, fear of blame, of dishonour, etc, there remains only two motives that can… — African Spir Copy Share Image
And when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Even the early droplets of selfish decisions suggest a direction. Then the little inflecting rivulets come, merging into small brooks and soon… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrown of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and integrity of… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
I knew by the way he looked at her that he held her in a higher regard than he held even himself.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love; it is the aim of the action.” — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“It is when your practice is rather greedy that you become discouraged with it.” — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Live for yourself -- there's no one else More worth living for Begging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
I know its selfish but I wish I was the only one who gives smile on your face. — Redeyeen Copy Share Image
“be greedy when others are fearful, and fearful when others are greedy.” — Warren Buffet Copy Share Image
“Of all selfish bastards, a selfish bastard who likes to be liked is probably the worst. Never” — Tom Holt Copy Share Image
“I understood that a race car driver must be selfish. Success at any endeavor on an elite level demands selfishness.” — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
What's wrong with selfishness and egotism? We live to die smiling, don't we? — Kazuya Minekura Copy Share Image
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I needed so much To have nothing to touch I've always been greedy that way” — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“I'm not ready to put others life into jeopardy, just for my own selfishness!” — Raajesh Pillai Copy Share Image
It is an act of extreme selfishness for a married couple to refuse to have children when they are able to do… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Don't transform happiness into selfishness, be happy at the happiness of others. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
“We don't know how bad we are until we try to be good. Nothing exposes our selfishness and spiritual pwerlessness like prayer.” — Paul E. Miller Copy Share Image