Concern Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

The self cannot be self without other selves.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Selflessness is not about being aware of how you’re affected by thought. It’s how you affect someone else by the choices that you make.…

— Eric Pepin

I must not be selfless: develop a sense of self. A solidness that can't be attacked.

— Sylvia Plath

“For those who suffer disposal, the cost is their very lives. For those of us who survive, there is a creeping indifference to anything…

— Michael D. O'Brien

“The root of all inauthentic manifestations of being-with-others is the attitude of self-concern. It is in this state of mind that, either consciously or…

— Stephen Batchelor

Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying.

— Lewis Thomas

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

— Anais Nin

“Why were there no words that spoke positively about being concerned about the self? Why was there only negative connotation in terms like "selfish",…

— A.J. Dalton

“If the boundaries of the self are defined by what we feel, then those who cannot feel even for themselves shrink within their own…

— Rebecca Solnit

It turns out that our notions of what a 'self' is and how it might feel fulfilled have no more objective status than most…

— Maureen O'Hara

“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 a charming…

— William Lashner

The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that…

— F. H. Bradley