Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it...There are… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what they need and to… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are almost equally sensitive, the ill-breeding that comes from want… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
When old people in power scold children and young people for 'selfishness' if they don't get triple-vaxxed, or if they let their… — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
You hate selfish people. Killing yourself = Selfish. You wanted to take away my pain. Killing yourself = pain for me. Causing… — Azgraybebly Joslan Copy Share Image
There will be selfishness and greed and corruption and narrowness and intolerance in the world tomorrow and tomorrow's tomorrow. But pray God… — Harold Stassen Copy Share Image
In recent years, many seem to have spent their lives protesting. Perhaps they have felt to do this because they have felt… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Excessive competitiveness, anxiety, hostility, suspiciousness, all originate in the nursery years. That is why, if we want a world of peace and… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
Jeffersonian isolationism expressed an essentially cosmopolitan spirit. The Jeffersonian was determined - even at the expense of separating himself from the rest… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The absolute desire of 'having more' encourages the selfishness that destroys communal bonds among the children of God. It does so because… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love and meaning, what the… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
What we won when all of our people united just must not now be lost in suspicion, distrust, selfishness, and politics among… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There must be love, and understanding, to betray. Most men haven't the wit or the honor for betrayal: not to know it… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego - all connected with self. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Humans are selfish, and because of our innate selfishness, I'm very confident that we can overcome any amount of environmental destruction. — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
When you center life around yourself, not only do you miss out on God's best, but you rob other people of the… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Any opposition not based on rationalism or science or experience will one day or other, reveal the fraud, selfishness, lies and conspiracies. — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image
The State must act as the guardian of a millennial future in the face of which the wishes and the selfishness of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
“Phir laa jawab kargayi mujhe teri khudgarz fitrat, Har taa'luk mita diya meine jab, Toh in khwaabon ke zariye raabta dhoond liya… — Henna Sohail Copy Share Image
I'm very selfish! I'm only thinking about how I would look in clothes, and not how we as a society might appear… — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
“Let sincere men and women the world over unite in earnest effort to supplant feelings of selfishness, hatred, animosity, greed, by the… — David O. McKay 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
“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
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
When marriage exposes a person's selfishness and sins it's doing what it is meant to do: bringing our sins and wounds to… — Christopher West Copy Share Image
Real leaders are people who “help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it,… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Understand the suffering of worldly existence. Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness. Practice the path of meditation and compassion. Awaken from… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Wisdom of an individual is a distinct,but rare ability to distinguish and define effortlessly the hairline difference between Love Yourself and Your… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
“It is a sad commentary on our civilization, however, that war and suffering rather than peacetime living can mobilize human readiness to… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
When you do things in a selfish way, let alone a destructive way, then you are bound by that karma. Your state… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
