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
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
Sometimes the coaches tell me to be selfish, but my game won't let me be selfish. — LeBron James Copy Share Image
“It is warm, I am alive, I am calm and sad, I hardly know why. In this existence so even, so tranquil,… — George Sand Copy Share Image
“Realize this, though. Half my genes run through your body, and my selfish genome is heavily evolutionarily pre-programmed to look out for… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“There is so much obligatory generosity to being a good mother, a good wife, a good friend. Solitude is an acceptable form… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“be greedy when others are fearful, and fearful when others are greedy.” — Warren Buffet Copy Share Image
“Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are not for public consumption, because they would either be hurtful or else just make… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“The faculty to think objectively is reason ; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility . To be objective, to… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“A true vision is not a selfish view of the future but one that blesses many people in the long run.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“If I am selfish I might have achieved great things, but achieving great things out of my selfishness is one of the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough 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
People who criticize The Selfish Gene like that often haven't read it. The selfish gene accounts for altruism toward kin and individuals… — Richard Dawkins 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
Running fills the cup that has to pour out for others. Running feeds the soul that has a responsibility to nourish. Running… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
I was a greedy, ravenous individual, determined to rise from the bottom to the top . . . It wasn't me! — Jack Unterweger Copy Share Image
“We have no festival, nor procession, nor ceremony, not excepting our cattle-shows and so-called Thanksgivings, by which the farmer expresses a sense… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It is possible that our present-day discussion about needs might be framed more by secular psychological theories than by Scripture. If this… — Edward T. Welch Copy Share Image
“That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
