All things Quote by Thomas Merton

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

— Thomas Merton

Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters-self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment,…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“What we traditionally call ‘selfish tendencies’ is only a narrow interpretation of what self-serving behaviour entails, wherein human characteristics are perceived through the flawed…

— Athene's Theory of Everything

Selfishness at the core is to think you have a special problem- a problem that God cannot deal with, that God didn’t deal with…

— Eric Ludy

Selfishness is the controlling force of sinful living. It is this motive which pulsates through the natural mind, emotions and will - self-pleasing, self-serving,…

— Walter J Chantry

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

— Jane Austen

Selfishness depends upon your behaviour don claim others.

— Shiva Jatt Mafia

The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.

— J. C. Ryle

Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.

— Duke Ellington

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to life. Selfishness always aims at…

— Oscar Wilde

In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.

— David Mitchell