I don't think we understand what others really want. I think we only understand what we really want. — Anthony Barger Copy Share Image
“Selfishness is the unwillingness to give up your soul for the rehabilitation of your future.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Human love is mostly selfishness; all the time it thinks only of the little 'i'. That 'i' is the ego. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
Selfishness and fear are at the root of (pro-abortion) legislation...We in the Church have a great struggle to defend life...life is a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Pray and ask God to show you a specific area where you need to let go of selfishness. Once He shows you,… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“It's dreadfully unfair to say things like that when this is likely the last time we will speak and we both know… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be… — Ludwig Borne Copy Share Image
“If we read the Western Canon in order to form our social, political, or personal moral values, I firmly believe we will… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
99% of humans are ruthless inconsiderate selfish greedy monsters. 1% of them have feelings and is considerate. The fact that there is… — Dav Mar Copy Share Image
Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way… — Alveda King 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
Mr Thornton would rather have heard that she was suffering the natural sorrow. In the first place, there was selfishness enough in… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“Committing suicide essentially said to friends and loved ones and the world at large that you were the only thing that mattered,… — Christine Warren Copy Share Image
Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence. The Omnipotent Himself could never be supposed… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency.… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Fond of bewailing the decadence of the modern world, of denouncing the younger generation for its lack of idealism and public spirit,… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something. — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
I'm not greedy at all. Sometimes I pinch myself because of what I've got. — Amy Childs Copy Share Image
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“The best way to be unselfish is to be selfish enough to get yourself to a position where you can afford to… — Mohamadi Tapsoba Copy Share Image
“The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone." — Ayn Rand (The Virtue of Selfishness)” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I don't want to be just another thing mary elizabeth is in charge of” — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“A greedy person doesn't even waste time for laughing. He is preoccupied with greed all day long.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“I'm not interested in the next generation, dear. I'm interested in us .' - Julia” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
