“All I know is that you probably deserve better than me, but I’m too selfish to let you. I’m into you, and… — Samantha Young Copy Share Image
“The thing that I’m most likely to collapse under is not the weight of the stresses that stand around me, but the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I hate people who would break someone's heart, thinking of no one but themselves. Selfish people don't deserve to be treated fairly. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Take care of those who take care of you. Be loyal to those that are loyal to you. Selfish people end up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed… — Rick Danko Copy Share Image
I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is… — Ayn Rand 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
In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“If there is to be any hope for the world, indeed if you really want to find satisfaction and happiness in your… — Sir James Darling Copy Share Image
To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. The essence of man… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
“Etymologically, "compassion" means to suffer together. "Together," however, is different from "identically." Compassion is not the same as selflessness, and not really… — William Voegeli Copy Share Image
I have repeatedly stressed that the selfish impulses of man constitute a much less historic danger than his integrative tendencies. To put… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
We are close to God when we are close to people. If we think of God as something in favor of the… — Daniel Ortega Copy Share Image
What it felt to me was like the dissolution of my idea of myself. I felt like separateness evaporated. I felt this… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of… — Thomas Merton 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
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
“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
“Loneliness had made the Queen bitter, bitterness had made her selfish, and selfishness had made her suspicious. --The Changeling” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of… — Thomas Jefferson 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
“When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Certain beliefs must accompany every action: One should act without selfishness, cultivate compassion for all living things, and develop respect for others. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to… — Franz Grillparzer 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
Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by… — George A. Smith Copy Share Image
I gave my heart to the wrong person but through it all I became selfish, selfish enough to not give it all… — Kishma Foy Copy Share Image
A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream,… — Christian Scriver Copy Share Image
The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, and which separates us from God and produces so many contagious spiritual disorders,… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
“There is just too much cruelty, selfishness and corruption in the world not to want to crush the poisonous will of those… — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
“When I left home in the morning, I believed the world was driven by selfishness. But it turns out, it’s filled with… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
Everything I had been taught to regard as a vice - and I still regard them as vices - under Thatcherism was… — Glenda Jackson Copy Share Image
If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“What did I get in return? Coldness and emotional detachment. You are selfish and bitter and you wouldn’t know a good thing… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
We don't have to be that greedy generation that just continued to take down the underpinnings of what makes the planet work… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Selfish men make the best lovers. They're prepared to invest in the women's pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image