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Selfishness Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and…
- To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect on me is to live on the doorstep of hell. Selfishness…
- It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the…
- What is 'grace'? It is God's own life, shared by us. God's life is love. Deus caritas est. By grace we are able to share…
- All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure and reputation and…
- The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that…
More Selfishness Quotes
- Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. — Jane Austen
- I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. — Jane Austen
- Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach
- Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. — Honore de Balzac
- People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. — Henry Ward Beecher
- The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that… — Cyrano de Bergerac
- It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers.… — Carol Burnett
- To be happy we must not be too concerned with others. — Albert Camus
- A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk… — Barbara Cartland
- I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness. — Gary Chapman