Enough of self, that darling luscious theme, O'er which philosophers in raptures dream; Of which with seeming disregard they write Then prizing… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The personal ego identifies with a very limited part of the self and prevents you from recognizing the largeness of who you… — Russell Anthony Gibbs Copy Share Image
“I have friends. I want more from you than that. I’m a selfish guy, Jane. If I can’t be your lover, if… — Rachel Gibson Copy Share Image
“How tolerable misfortunes appear when they affect only other people! How strong the human body seems when it's another man's flesh that… — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
Focus enough energy inward. Before befriending others, you have to be your own friend. Before making others happy, you have to make… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
“when fertility rates began collapsing in the late 1960s, another demographic transition was occurring, the result of a fundamental restructuring: People no… — Jonathan V. Last Copy Share Image
“The one whose self-interests (selfishness) in this world goes away, he will become the Absolute Supreme Self (parmatma), provided he does not… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Unless we realize our sins enough to call them by name, it is hardly worth while to say anything about them at… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Compassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and surest means of… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Individualism has come in for an enormous amount of criticism over the years. It still does. It is widely assumed to be… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
“Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues.… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“Self-care is never a selfish act - it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
“theory of natural selection itself seems calculated to foster selfishness at the expense of public good, violence, callous indifference to suffering, short… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
“This selfishness of your suicide displeased you. But, all things considered, the lull of death won out over life’s painful commotion.” — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
Cheating is the most selfish thing a person can do in a relationship! If your not happy with the person your with… — Bryan Burden Copy Share Image
Selfishness of the stable or rigid sort is as a rule more bitterly resented than the more fickle variety, chiefly, no doubt,… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Broke off a friendship yesterday, because after loving someone for so long its so sad to be smacked in the face with… — Shmoopy Copy Share Image
To humanity, which sometimes seems to be lost and dominated by the power of evil, selfishness and fear, the risen Lord gives… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Selfishness is the key quality that all successful people share. To be the best at what you do in any field, and… — Ja Rule Copy Share Image
“Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If we assume, parents give birthto children for their own self-interest/ Selfihness ! So what does a girl born, AfterAll, one day… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
A trustworthy marriage has weathered temptation and anger and jealousy, resentment, self-righteousness and a little bit of selfishness. When you get over… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
Selfishness is not living as one wisheThe cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. s to live, it… — Oscar Wilde 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
“There is a simple rule: practice a kind of generous selfishness. Give a book to a friend, but don't lend it, because… — Leah Price 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
A man of limited desire will always have less or perhaps nothing to worry and sensibly no fear of losing anything or… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
I Look At You And Smile... Hmmm Just Wondering Why? Why You Gotta Be So Selfish,&Worthless About Everything...Your In My Face Grinng… — Niffi Smiles Copy Share Image
Wisdom is a distinct ability to distinguish and define effortlessly the hairline difference between Love Yourself and Your Selfishness. - — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me. — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Kindness, love, patience, understanding, and unity will increase as we serve, while intolerance, jealousy, envy, greed, and selfishness decrease or disappear. The… — Carlos H. Amado Copy Share Image
It's something about the inevitability. How nothing can keep them apart--not her selfishness, or his evil, or even death, in the end...their… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters-self-conceit, self-pity,… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
A true leader knows how to leads his people, knows their needs, wants, the one who humbles himself and the one who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image