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“Gratitude free of compassion is selfishness. It is nothing more than being happy for what has been done to benefit you.”

Life Has Beens Done Compassion Gratitude Benefits Selfishness

Author:Derek R. Audette

“It's a mistake to expect benefits from any pose. Expectations make you restless because if you fail to get what you expect, you feel miserable. Yoga practice is an act of adoration to the Lord. You do it because it has to be done. If you have this mental attitude, your selfishness disappears and the benefits come.”

Ifs Feels Done Mistake Attitude Lord Practice Failing Benefits Expectations Yoga Disappear Miserable Selfishness Restless Adoration Mental Attitude Yoga Practice

Author:Dharma Mittra

“Do they still call it infatuation? That magic ax that chops away the world in one blow, leaving only the couple standing there trembling? Whatever they call it, it leaps over anything, takes the biggest chair, the largest slice, rules the ground wherever it walks, from a mansion to a swamp, and its selfishness is its beauty.... People with no imagination feed it with sex -- the clown of love. They don't know the real kinds, the better kinds, where losses are cut and everybody benefits. It takes a certain intelligence to love like that -- softly, without props.”

“Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and benefit. This is not immoral, but the highest of morality.”

May Mean Doe Self Pleasure Morality Benefits Highest Selfishness Immoral

Author:Ayn Rand

“The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.”

Men Important Suffering Benefits Selfish Selfishness Selfish Men

Book:The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. If one colony member devotes its life to service over marriage, the individual is of benefit to the society, even though it does not have personal offspring. A soldier going into battle will benefit his country, but he runs a higher risk of death than one who does not. An altruist benefits the group, but a layabout or coward who saves his own energy and reduces his bodily risk passes the resulting social cost to others.”

Ifs Doe Country Running Individual Energy Social Sin Results Virtue Risk Groups Higher Battle Cost Members Benefits Soldier Selfishness Coward Altruism Versus Selection Offspring Colony

Author:E. O. Wilson

“The effect of capitalism is to steer human selfishness so that, through the invisible hand of competition, the energies of the capitalist produce the abundance from which the whole society benefits.”

Humans Whole Hands Energy Effects Produce Benefits Capitalism Competition Invisible Selfishness Abundance Capitalist Steers Invisible Hand

Book:What's So Great About Christianity

Source: What's So Great About Christianity

“He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.”

World Life Dies Benefits Selfishness

Author:Tertullian

“I've learned that the universe doesn't care what our motives are, only our actions. So we should do things that will bring about good, even if there is an element of selfishness involved. Like the kids at my school might join the Key Club or Future Buisness Leaders of America, because it's a social thing and looks good on their record, not because they really want to volunteer at the nursing home. But the people at the nursing home still benefit from it, so it's better that the kids do it than not do it. And if they never did it, then they wouldn't find out that they actually liked it.”

Source: 13 Gifts