If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Alas! how many souls there are full of self, and yet desirous of doing good and serving God, but in such a… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
My view is my entire life has been shaped by giving when I didn't have it. Some idiot who's wealthy and doesn't… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
...rise above selfishness. This includes spiritual selfishness, when one looks toward personal edification and strengthening and has no other interest than one's… — Hans B. Ringger Copy Share Image
Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“I believe I may assert that they were really in possession of deep and growing happiness. It ended. Well, we must be… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
It's funny. I'm attracted to things that don't have any impact on life. People say I've done a great thing for women.… — Joan Benoit Copy Share Image
At the heart of the message of the Savior of the world is a single, glorious, wonderful, still largely untried concept. In… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Suddenly I find myself feeling sorry for those greedy, needy people whose huge salaries are never quite enough, whose sense of worth… — Terence Blacker Copy Share Image
“I content myself with the fact that the general system of our trade is a system of selfishness, is not dictated by… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“When men feel like “family”, where the blood and genetic inheritance that unites them is the force of Love, the qualities that… — Ivan Figueroa-Otero Copy Share Image
“THE UNFORGIVEN Tell me if you've ever had to deal with these kinds of people: The kind who take and don't give.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
This, books can do-nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved,… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“You see Carter, people are two things: greedy and cruel. So we have a perfect set-up here. The greed part - a… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Appreciation is not an otherworldly or good treat which we may take or push away as per the minute's impulses, and in… — Noel 'Razor' Smith Copy Share Image
We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all.… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism.… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Mbegu tunazopanda leo ni mazao ya msimu ujao. Ukipanda mbegu mbaya utavuna mabaya. Ukipanda mbegu nzuri utavuna mazuri. Ukitenda mabaya leo kesho… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“There are some people that see the half full cup and get upset about where the other half of the cup went...… — Daniel Prokop Copy Share Image
“Your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Yet women, whose minds are not enlarged by cultivation, or in whom the natural selfishness of sensibility hasn’t been expanded by reflection,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I myself feel, and also tell other Buddhists that the question of Nirvana will come later. There is not much hurry. If… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“that is the thing about selfish people. they gamble entire beings. entire souls to please their own. one second they are holding… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“there are selfish people around you who behave good and nice with you only to get something done from you and use… — Led Miliana Copy Share Image
“His Kingship, precisely because it is so broad, so total, is doomed to be rejected by anybody who is still into tribalism,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure… — Thomas Carlyle 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
“Man’s development requires his capacity to transcend the narrow prison of his ego, his greed, his selfishness, his separation from his fellow… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We're into an age of excessive individuals, all right. We're into the age were independence, autonomy, convenience, sometimes selfishness. The new trinity… — Timothy M. Dolan Copy Share Image
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
INEITHER want those people in my life who cling to me in their bad days and forget me in times of their… — Aruna Rai Copy Share Image
“Selfish needs, wants, and desires needed to be obliterated. Greed, overindulgence, and gluttony had to be expunged from human behavior. The solution… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Selfishness comes from too little self-love, not too much, as we compensate for our lack. There's no such thing as caring for… — Anita Moorjani Copy Share Image
“When we are in constant pain, we cannot empathize with others, nor can we help them. It is only when we allow… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
The capacity for loving strangers, whether one thinks of them as fictional beings or stars one will never meet, is a profound… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
We live in a world filled with language. Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human community. Writers are either polluters… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
A lot of times, people think of selfish, and they think of offense, but you can be selfish on the defensive end… — J. B. Bickerstaff Copy Share Image
“All witches are selfish, the Queen had said. But Tiffany’s Third Thoughts said: Then turn selfishness into a weapon! Make all things… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
