“The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted.” BeliefEnergyDisciplineSelfishGenerosityUnhappinessSelflessMisguided Author:Gretchen Rubin
“National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.” IndividualEnergyProgressIndustryIndividualityVicesSelfishSelfishnessDecayIdlenessUprightness Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct
“The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly. It's a problem that we will not be able to solve in the next few years, and it's likely to get progressively worse through the rest of this century. We must not be selfish or timid if we hope to have a decent world for our children and grandchildren. We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.” IfsWorldYearsChildrenProblemAbleNextEnergyActingCenturyBalanceDemandResourcesOur ChildrenCrisisSolveSelfishAlternativesDecentOur FutureGrandchildrenOverwhelmedShrinkingChildren And GrandchildrenBeing SelfishEnergy CrisisActing Now Author:Jimmy Carter
“Since the real purpose of meditation is to increase our capacity to help others, taking time each day to meditate is not selfish. We have to manage our time and energy in such a way that we can be of maximum benefit to others, and to do this we need time alone to recover our strength, collect our thoughts, and see things in perspective” WayNeedsRealHelpingPurposeTimeEnergyMeditationStrengthPerspectiveOne DayBenefitsCapacityIncreaseSelfishHelping OthersManageOur TimeEach DayTake TimeOur ThoughtsMaximumMe AloneTime And EnergyTime Of NeedAlone TimeNot Selfish Book:Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness Source: Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness
“How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the earth were it not for misgovernment and a diversion of his energies to selfish interests.” MenEarthEnergyInterestLaborSelfishParadiseDiversionSelfish Interest Author:Thomas Jefferson