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“Think what a contribution selfish people of great talent could have made if their commitments had been made to Jesus Christ instead of to themselves! We will do better in every aspect of our lives if we commit to a God in whose life we see miracles, power over disease and death.”

People Ifs Thinking Made Jesus Christ Our Lives Talent Disease Commitment Jesus Christ Aspect Miracle Selfish Commit Contribution Great Talent Selfish People Disease And Death

Author:Vaughn J Featherstone

“The most difficult thing for us seems to be to give of ourselves, to do away with selfishness. If we really love someone, nothing is too difficult for us to do for that individual. There is no real happiness in having or getting unless we are doing it for the purpose of giving it to others. Half the world seems to be following the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness-many think it consists of having and getting and being served, when really happiness is found in serving others.”

“Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer”

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Author:Sadhu Sundar Singh

“Loyalty cannot be too liberally insisted upon. Altruism in nature remains an exception. It poses a puzzle, being in prima facie conflict with the survival of the fittest and most selfish.”

Conflict Survival Remains Selfish Loyalty Exception Altruism Puzzles Survival Of The Fittest

Author:Peter Birks

“People always tend to chose what is best for them. They pretend to be unselfish, all so that they can feel good about themselves. Even that really is a selfish decision.”

People Feels Decision Drama Selfish Feel Good Unselfish

Author:Cheon Eunbi

“That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good.”

Feels Charity Selfish Feel Good Make You Feel Good Charity Work

Author:Maria Menounos

“Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch of pure love.”

Love Humans Heart Desire Love Is Gone Forever Conditions Divine Pure Ordinary Satisfaction Selfish Boundaries Rooted Human Heart Divine Love Pure Love Flux Ordinary Love

Author:Sri Yukteswar Giri

“Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.”

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Author:Madame Roland

“I was given such a great gift. It's a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I'll be. I just want to be a better man.”

“If I love myself I will express that love in my interactions with you, and then I am being impeccable with the word, because that action will produce a like reaction. If I love you, then you will love me. If I insult you, you will insult me. If I have gratitude for you , you will have gratitude for me. If I'm selfish with you, you will be selfish with me.”

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Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“In much of today's popular culture, the virtues of forgiveness and kindness are belittled, while ridicule, anger, and harsh criticism are encouraged. Let us not hurt the ones we love the most by selfish criticism!”

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Author:David E. Sorensen

“Unless you love yourself, you can't love anybody. Be selfish.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world. We marry to assist each other in this task. The most selfish and hateful life of all is that of two beings who unite in order to enjoy life. The highest calling is that of the man who has dedicated his life to serving God and doing good, and who unites with a woman in order to further that purpose.”

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Author:Leo Tolstoy

“In the middle of a conversation, she'll frequently say something like, "Young people are heartless, they don't have any respect anymore." I nod agreement in hopes that she'll stop right there, but secretly I'm convinced that the heart is the same as it's always been; there's simply less hypocrisy, that's all. Young people aren't naturally selfish, any more than old folks are naturally wise. Your age doesn't have anything to do with whether you're sensitive or shallow; it's a question of the path your life takes.”

People Heart Age Young Path Wise Middle Youth Like You Conversation Folks Convinced Selfish Sensitive Hypocrisy Agreement Shallow Heartless

Author:Susanna Tamaro

“I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children”

World Want Believe Children I Believe Can Do Our Children Leaving I Believe In Selfish I Am Selfish

Author:Holly Near

“All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.”

Writing Lying Mystery Bottom Selfish Vain Motive Lazy Writers And Writing Writing By Writers

Author:George Orwell

“Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish.”

Love Writing Watches Fantasy Land Products Direct Excuse Selfish Cop

Author:Monica Dickens

“It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.”

Filled Selfish Eagerness Being Selfish

Book:The journal of Jules Renard

Source: The journal of Jules Renard

“There should be perfect freedom, legal and social, to do the action and stand the consequences. It would be a great misunderstanding of this doctrine to suppose that it is one of selfish indifference, which pretends that human beings have no business with each other's conduct in life, and that they should not concern themselves about the well-doing or well-being of one another, unless their own interest is involved.”

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Author:John Stuart Mill

“Nevertheless, the Tenth Commandment-'Thou shalt not covet'-recognizes that making money and owning things could become selfish activities. But it is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but love of money for its own sake. The spiritual dimension comes in deciding what one does with the wealth. How could we respond to the many calls for help, or invest for the future, or support the wonderful artists or craftsmen whose work also glorifies God, unless we had first worked hard and used our talents to create the necessary wealth?”

Source: The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher

“From afar, it seems like a war without a solution and like a long sacrifice for the entire country. So when a president appears who tries to open a path to peace, I think that deserves support, because there is a lot of pain, and if they try to settle scores, the war will never end. But there is an opportunity. I would feel selfish if I did not help in any way.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feels Trying Long War Ends Country Helping Seems Pain Opportunity President Powerful Support Path Sacrifice Solutions Deserve Humble Selfish Settling Score Poorest Afar

Author:Jose Mujica

“Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.”

World Country Selfish Nationalism Regions Brutes Switzerland Most Romantic

Book:The Sayings of Lord Byron

Source: The Sayings of Lord Byron

“Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there is a misunderstanding about a boundary line or a hamper of fish or some other squalid matter, see patriotism rise, and hear him split the universe with is war-whoop. The spirit of patriotism being in its nature jealous and selfish, is just in man's line, it comes natural to him - he can live up to all its requirements to the letter; but the spirit of Christianity is not in its entirety possible to him.”

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…

“Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire ever burning and never consumed, which itself consumes all the selfish love that fills my being.”

Giving Inspiration Faith Fire Greater Mystery Sea Eternal Give Me Selfish Christian Inspirational Burning Consumed Trinity Selfish Love

Author:St. Catherine of Siena

“We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.”

Want Environment Protect Selfish Protect Nature

Author:Yvon Chouinard

“In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.”

“It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.”

Source: 8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an

“They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.”

Source: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

“That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.”

Moral Selfish Generosity Immoral Unselfish

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.”

“The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation. At the head is a small group of banking houses... This little coterie...runs our government for their own selfish ends. It operates under cover of a self-created screen...seizes...our executive officers...legislative bodies...schools... courts...newspapers and every agency created for the public protection.”

“Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.”

Men Children Littles Pain Joy Enjoy Laughing Cry Sorrow Extremes Selfish Lazy Liars Hypocrite Trifles Envious Little Man Joys And Sorrows Haughty Sneaky Contemptuous

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.”

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Author:Leigh Hunt

“The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.”

Source: Practical Agitation

“If you tell people enough times that they are unhappy, incomplete, possibly insane and definitely selfish there is bound to come a grey morning when they wake up with the beginning of a nasty cold and wonder if they are lonely rather than simply “alone.””

People Ifs Enough Wonder Morning Cold Lonely Wake Up Bounds Selfish Unhappy Insane Nasty Grey Incomplete Enough Time

Author:Sara Maitland

“War has taught me that each one of us contains every ingredient of the human recipe. By varying measure we are all cowards and brave men, thieves and honest men, selfish and selfless men, malingerers and champions, weasels and lions. The only question is how much of each attribute we allow- or force - to dominate our being.”

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Author:Eric L. Haney

“It is something of a miracle that individual selfish decisions (in a market economy) must lead to a collectively efficient outcome.”

Individual Decision Economy Miracle Selfish Outcomes Efficient Market Economy

Author:Steven Landsburg

“If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless good fortune. Such a universe would be neither evil nor good in intention ... The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“But I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is.”

Character Watches Selfish Crush

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“People think that you are a nasty, selfish person if you don`t want to have children.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Children Persons Selfish Nasty Selfish Person

Author:Janeane Garofalo

“I just love it so much [acting]. When I get passionate, I’ll give you everything until I collapse. That’s not in any ’Look at me, I’m a saint’ kind of way. It’s very selfish in a way. I’m doing this really awesome exploration, and it’s like a drug, because I completely disappear.”

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Author:Ellen Page

“Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.”

People Feels Two Games Selfish Selfish People

Book:Couplehood

Source: Couplehood

“Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.”

Way Weak Selfish Insecure

Author:Sidney Poitier

“I dont feel like I would be a good mentor. I dont know what I have to offer in that respect. I do this for pretty selfish reasons.”

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Author:Ryan Gosling

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.”

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Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever.”

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Author:Elton John

“You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.”

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Author:Sarah Brightman

“We take these animals and completely violate who they are. We use them, abuse them, and deprive them all their lives…then we cut their throats, shred them and eat them! Morally, I’m against it, ethically, I can’t justify it, and ecologically, it’s just insane. The thought of meat-eating makes me shudder. As far as wearing fur is concerned, it is the rudest, most inconsiderate, selfish and sick façade I can imagine.”

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Author:River Phoenix

“Sometimes you have to be selfish to get what you want and move forward in life.”

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Author:Kristen Stewart

“My hero is me. Why? Because I was a poor little kid who was told, `Hey stupid, can`t you speak English?` Now all those people work for me. Despite whatever circumstances I came across, I was always able to rise to the top and there`s only one way to do that - by being selfish, but also by believing in yourself. Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, `Do or do not. There is no try.”