many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors. They wish to… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
“I think sometimes we gravitate toward broken people, not ’cause we want to fix them, but ’cause we want to fix ourselves.… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
All disguised, In different shape and size. None want to realise, What is the real need of life. Darkness prevails in sunlight,… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Is it possible really to love other people? If I’m lonely and in pain, everyone outside me is potential relief—I need them.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“We are not only contingent beings, dependent on the love and will of a Creator whom we cannot know experientially except in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
Am I the only one who is tired of people complaining about their love lives, friends, or just their lives over facebook… — Nastiya Copy Share Image
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“The materialistic and selfish quality of contemporary life is not inherent in the human condition. Much of what appears ‘natural’ today dates… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“And it is then, when The Cause, with its greedy mouth, tries to take more from you, tries to take that part… — D.J. Molles Copy Share Image
“He asked me not to kill myself - asked, not told. His wife had done that, he told me, and it was… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
There is no hell like that of a selfish heart, and there is no misfortune so great as that of not being… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When Buda mentioned that everything is an illusion, he was not being metaphysical but truly practical. When you thin you are more… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“I have nothing to do with others, I am only concerned with myself. I take advantage of the fact that the majority… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The liberal communist, however, wishes us to believe that we can enjoy the selfish rewards of rampant profiteering and eat our cake… — Carl Cederstrom Copy Share Image
Day and night, and every moment, there are voices about us. All the hours speak as they pass; and in every event… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Because of anger-pride-deceit-greed, selfishness [self-interest] remains and consequently one has no awareness of who dies or who takes birth. It is simply… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories… — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part.… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Every new encounter provides a new mirror for me to view my own experiences through, and there is a level of selfishness… — Rachel Lloyd Copy Share Image
Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“Life's not the Internet, fuckholes! Life doesn't sway or give when you try to force it to give you what you crave,… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Faced with today's problems and disappointments , many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Johannes said greedy people can never be happy, and I would so much like to know what it feels like to be… — Anne Holm Copy Share Image
Even through you and I are in different boats, you in your boat and we our canoe, we share the same river… — Oren Lyons Copy Share Image
For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again… — Robin Winks Copy Share Image
I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough." "Waiting for perfect love?" "No, even I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
We're a strange animal, so often destroying what we love for selfish ends, and yet tantalized by the sense that there are… — Roland Joffe Copy Share Image
We receive mixed messages about taking good care of ourselves. Love thy neighbor as thyself means to love thyself and thy neighbor.… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
“If we are so contemptibly selfish that we can’t radiate a little happiness and pass on a bit of honest appreciation without… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image