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“I do this for the sake of myself. It's a selfish process. I don't really have any expectations from anyone for your comments or your reviews or your previews.”

Process Expectations Sake Selfish Reviews Comment Fiasco Preview

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“Acting a part is not always synonymous with lying; it is far often the best way of serving the truth. It is more truthful to act what we should feel if the community is to be well served rather than behave as we actually do feel in our selfish private feelings.”

Ifs Way Feels Should Wells Feelings Lying Community Acting Selfish Best Way Behave Serving Truthful

Author:Elizabeth Goudge

“We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes us incapable of loving others.”

Love Selfish Incapable Loving Others Selfish Love

Author:Thomas Merton

“The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.”

Thinking Men Able Share Selfish Cease Unselfishness

Book:Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions

Source: Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions

“We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.”

Ifs Kind Said Selfish Likes Halfway You Like It Doing You Being Selfish Halfway There

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“His enemies said he [Robert Kennedy] was consumed with selfish ambition, a ruthless opportunist exploiting his brother's legend. But he was too passionate and too vulnerable ever to be the cool and confident operator his brother was.”

Said Enemy Brother Achievement Ambition Passionate Selfish Vulnerable Legends Consumed Ruthless Operators Opportunist Selfish Ambition

Book:Robert Kennedy: a memoir

Source: Robert Kennedy: a memoir

“. . .this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 't is her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.”

Source: Favorite Poems

“Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you're diving in and experiencing the Self, you're not closing yourself off from the world. You're strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world.”

World Self Meditation Selfish Closing Strengthening Losing Yourself Diving

Author:David Lynch

“Today, our air, food, water-all are polluted. If we do not stop exploiting nature for our temporary selfish gains, we will destroy the world.”

Ifs World Today Water Nature Air Gains Selfish Temporary

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“Let our lives be firmly rooted in Truth. Abstain from lies. In this dark age of materialism, adherence to truth is the greatest austerity. We might have to tell lies now and then to protect somebody or to sustain dharma, but we must be careful not to speak lies for our own selfish purposes.”

“Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.”

Self Nations Interest Decision Morality Bases Selfish Self Interest

Author:William Sloane Coffin

“You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.”

Looks Self Parent Ready Involved Selfish Being Selfish Good Parent

Author:Lauren Holly

“I was neurotic for years. I was anxious and depressed and selfish. Everyone kept telling me to change. I resented them and I agreed with them, and I wanted to change, but simply couldn't, no matter how hard I tried. Then one day someone said to me, Don't change. I love you just as you are. Those words were music to my ears: Don't change, Don't change. Don't change . . . I love you as you are. I relaxed. I came alive. And suddenly I changed!”

Years Said Matter Hard Wanted Change Alive Love You Changed One Day Ears Selfish Anxious Relaxed Neurotic Don't Change

Author:Anthony de Mello

“If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.”

Ifs Love Is Sacrifice Return Selfish Devotion Conditional Without Sacrifice Conditional Love Bartering

Author:Dada Vaswani

“I like working with kids because I enjoy seeing the looks on their faces and, it's kind of selfish, I want a future audience.”

Want Looks Kind Kids Faces Enjoy Audience Seeing Selfish

Author:Joshua Bell

“I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, she's childish, she's immature and because I'm doing a three-book arc I really played that up in the first book. I wanted the reader to be annoyed with her at times.”

Firsts Persons Book Real Wanted Three Reader Selfish Flawed Annoyed Arcs Immature Heroines Real Person

Author:Amber Benson

“Men tend to be selfish.”

Men Selfish Being Selfish

Author:Caprice Bourret

“I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it.”

People Ifs Knows Way Children Sound Decided Raises Selfish Right Thing Professional Life

Author:Emmanuelle Beart

“To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.”

Ifs Happiness Three Lost Stupid Intellectual Stupidity Selfish Selfishness Healthcare Lacking Requirements Stupid People Good Health People Stupidity Selfish Desire Lacking Something

Book:The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857

Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857

“I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.”

Thinking Sometimes Capable Selfish Genes Magnanimity Selfish Gene

Author:Jim Broadbent

“Oh, I think I've been entirely selfish with my career. I've done what I wanted to do, and not put myself out for anyone else particularly.”

Thinking Done Wanted Careers Selfish

Author:Jim Broadbent

“I am a very selfish person.”

Persons Selfish Selfish Person

Author:Lara Flynn Boyle

“I was really conflicted. I had always planned to help the world. Instead, I was going to become an actress? That seemed like such a selfish thing to do.”

World Helping Actresses Selfish Things To Do

Author:Maria Bello

“I know I'm not a selfish player. People around me know I'm not a selfish player. I do everything I can to make people around me understand I'm not a selfish player.”

People Knows I Can Player Selfish

Author:Carmelo Anthony

“I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote "In Contempt" was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it.”

Ifs Reason Realizing Needed Protect My Family Selfish Trials Contempt Selfish Reasons

Author:Christopher Darden

“I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.”

Want Needs Young Selfish Native Native American Needs And Wants Personal Needs

Author:Sherman Alexie

“Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.”

Believe Reason Politician Passionate Resilience Selfish Clarity

Author:Jennifer Egan

“It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline that permits him to subordinate voluntarily his own selfish interest to the wider interests of the society in which he lives. The gentleman, therefore is a cultural person in the noblest sense of the word, if by culture we mean not simply wealth of intellectual knowledge but also the ability to fulfil one's duty and understand one's fellow man by respecting / every principle, every opinion, every faith that is sincerely professed.”

“A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people's rights, each sex, without any obvious unreason, can and does regard the other as radically selfish.”

People Thinking Men Giving Mean Doe Sex Rights Trouble He Man Office Regard Obvious Selfish Doing Good Respecting Others Unselfishness Screwtape Letters Selfish Men Good Office

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Liberals have difficulty understanding the Tea Party because they think it is a bunch of selfish racists. But I think the Tea Party is driven in large part by concerns about fairness.”

Thinking Understanding Party Concern Difficulty Driven Selfish Bunch Tea Racist Fairness Tea Party

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!”

Ifs Should Mean Said Would Be Marketing Selfish

Author:Abbas Kiarostami

“What selfish seeds I plant along the way, black harvest today.”

Way Philosophy Today Black Plant Seeds Selfish Harvest

Author:Steve Winwood

“In order to be able to give a girlfriend the amount of time she deserves, you would need time, and I just can't give her that. So, rather than being selfish or stupid enough to go into a relationship, it's just been easier to be single.”

Needs Giving Enough Able Order Stupid Amount Easier Deserve Selfish Girlfriend Time Of Need Being Selfish Deserve You

Author:Ryan Kwanten

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