“Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched. The things which are sacred or… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Adultery is a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgement and bearing sole responsibility for your own life.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Do you know when you love, you expand your life?. Do you know when you are selfish, you contract your life. He… — Michael Adarkwah Copy Share Image
I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There are minerals called hydrophanous, which are not transparent till they are immersed in water, when they become so; as the hydrophane,… — Roswell Dwight Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“The creation of man is evidence for the love of God, the preservation of man is evidence for the patience of God,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The dramatic threat of ecological breakdown is teaching us the extent to which greed and selfishness are contrary to the order of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“For it is in selfishness & greed most choose to walk. In hate we choose to be. Yes even the words of… — Robert Vanleeuwen Copy Share Image
Every ignoramus imagines that all that exists, exists with a view to his individual sake; it is as if there were nothing… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Regardless, heterosexual marriage is largely in trouble today because people see it as a selfish means of pleasing self, rather than a… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
“The world is a cruel mother, a matron of darkness, selfishness, greed, and misery. For most, their time suckling at her breast… — Ed McDonald Copy Share Image
It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“In his 1907 retirement address, Joseph Pulitzer urged his successors to always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
“The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that… — Dean Koontz 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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed in feeling sorry… — John H. Groberg Copy Share Image
“Human beings appear to be sufficiently selfish and calculating to be capable of indefinitely greater harmony and social homeostasis. This statement is… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The argument has long been made that we humans are by nature compassionate and empathic despite the occasional streak of meanness, but… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection instead. She had the nearsightedness… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Maybe you've gotten through something and when you did you thought, I am leaving that behind and will never return. And that's… — Vince Antonucci Copy Share Image
“The root of all evil, the liberal insists, was precisely this interference with the freedom of employment, trade and currencies practiced by… — Karl Polanyi Copy Share Image
“In my philosophy, I think churches should not argue and be greedy with money. I think different churches like the synagogues, mosques,… — Simi Sunny Copy Share Image
“In private life do we not see hypocrisy, servility, selfishness, folly, and impudence succeed, while modesty shrinks from the encounter, and merit… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Faith, courage, and intelligent and uninterrupted awareness - these qualities are to be present whether one is wide awake, half asleep, or… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Adam Smith was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy stemmed… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
Count your blessings for selfish reasons! Psychological studies show that people who are aware of their blessings and feel grateful for them… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
Cultivate peace first in the garden of your heart by removing the weeds of lust, hatred, greed, selfishness, and jealousy. Then only… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
“Unlike the rest of you, I cheerfully admit to my own utter selfishness. I am self-made, self-absorbed, self-serving, self-referential, even self-deprecating, in… — William Lashner Copy Share Image
“It’s been said that love is all there is; that a lack of love causes people to do evil things. I can… — novelist J. Conrad Guest Copy Share Image
The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
“In the end, even the “yes” to love is a source of suffering, because love always requires expropriations of my “I”, in… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Prayer must be broad in its scope - it must plead for others. Intercession for others is the hallmark of all true… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
You're either selfish, or you're a servant...but fundamentally selfish people are terrible friends, terrible lovers, terrible spouses, terrible Christians, terrible parents. They… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
“For when is the child the ideal child in our eyes and to our hearts? Is it not when with gentle hand… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
What you learn about yourself is that you continue to see that you're selfish. It's so easy, in our Laodicean culture with… — Aaron Kampman Copy Share Image
I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
