Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
While it only takes one spouse to be friendly, it takes both spouses to be friends. When both spouses are unfriendly, the… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
“Selfishness provides materialism, wealth, and attachment, but at the cost of happiness. The ignorant and the naïve choose the path of selfishness… — Pratap C. Singhal Copy Share Image
I think love is often a bit selfish, even before we had consumerism. That's not new. A consumer society gives you the… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
If at the end of the week's work, and on receiving his wages, he were to ask his employer for a larger… — James Allen Copy Share Image
“Two selfish people make miserable love story. One selfless person and one selfish person make an okay love story that may or… — Marilyn Grey 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
Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I'm sorry that I said goodbye, people say I did the right thing but they don't have to cry. I can love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Many people think that the theory of the selfish gene says that “animals try to spread their genes.” That misstates the facts… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Foolish, selfish people are always thinking of themselves and the result is always negative. Wise persons think of others, helping them as… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Those Innocent days of our life : Once Choosing color of Sketch pen was a tough Process. Catching the seat near the… — Don Raj Copy Share Image
“To forget self and identify it with nature is to break down its limitation and to set it at liberty. To break… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“A true suicide is a paced, disciplined certainty. People pontificate, “Suicide is selfishness.” Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Well, I must own that you are not at all goodnatured to your sisters," she said frankly. "Not that I blame you… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
“Love is always ready to deny itself, to give, sacrifice, just in the measure of its sincerity and intensity. Perfect love is… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
If we desire to do what will please God, and what will help men, we presently find ourselves taken out of our… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
We are beset by problems and if we look for their source, we find they arise because of our selfishness, because we… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Mysticism has often been misunderstood as the attempt to escape this simple, phenomenal world to a more pure existence in heaven beyond.… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without… — Benjamin Harvey Hill Copy Share Image
It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another; yea, that, where two… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
People are strange.If you praise someone they think you must have your own mean in this.If you don't praise,they call you jealous.If… — Nasir Ali Copy Share Image
And it is in this darkness, when there is nothing left in us that can please or comfort our own minds, when… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty five days… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“What are you really living for? It's crucial to realize that you either glorify God, or you glorify something or someone else.… — Ken Sande Copy Share Image
Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
We can also allow our Soul mate to pass us by, without accepting him or her,or even noticing. Then we will need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Many individuals are so constituted that their only thought is to obtain pleasure and shun responsibility. They would like, butterfly-like, to wing… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The dictionary describes a selfish person as one who is 'concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself: seeking pleasure or well-being without regard… — H. Burke Peterson Copy Share Image
“People screw up. People screw up a lot. We allow our own selfishness to overpower us at times. It happens. But you… — Nicole Sobon Copy Share Image
“Moralistic behavior change simply manipulates and leverages radical selfishness without challenging it. It tries to use that selfishness against itself by appealing… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
“Indeed this gentleman's stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“How arrogant you are To think your wretched Self so singular! The disappointments of this world will die In less time than… — Farid ud-Din Attar Copy Share Image
“A poetess is not as selfish as you assume. After months of agonising over her marriage of words—the bride— and spaces—the groom,… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I knew what it felt like to have no say in who you were as a sexual being. It didn't just strip… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
