Everyone has a natural slant towards seeking themselves. This gets in the way of seeking God unless God intervenes.

I found Americans arrogant, Germans rude, Britishers selfish, Frenchs desperate, Chinese worried and my own nation stupid.

The ones who live for themselves find it easier to follow their dreams.

Her happiness is not my responsibility. She should be happy and I should be happy individually. Then we come together and share our happiness. Giving someone a responsibility to make you happy when you can’t...

I’ve been a scoundrel in my life. I’ve been selfish. I’ve been cruel at times, hard to work with, and I’m grateful that so many of you in this room have given me a second...

Religion is an ideology like the terrorism, Fascism and Nazism. It can be poisonous and dangerous, but still there are people who follow them selfishly.

Some selfish people rise because some kind people haven’t learned the art of saying no to them.

She says: …love is really all that matters. He hears: …really love to do it on the mattress.

The petty man wants to use God for himself; the ambitious man wants God to use him for God.

What did an invisible God want from a bunch of frail, selfish people? The only thing Landon could figure was that He’d like for them to learn to love and help one another. Why else...

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.

Before my accident I was a little too… selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I’m blessed. I’m really blessed.

LOVE YOURSELF” does not mean to do only what one feels or perceives is right, but the thing which is morally right for everyone.

Romantic love is the most selfish of all emotions.

I’m a selfish, selfish bitch. Because all I can think about, is whether I’ll regret it in three hours, when we walk out of here, and I never know, not even once, what it’s like...

I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses – being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

A PRIME TRUTH – MAN IS SELFISH(Name of chapter)

I do not think men are good at all. I have seen enough to know that humans are a wicked race from their very birth. Selfishness defines us. Greed and lust motivate us. And even...

I bought you a gift. It’s something I’ve always wanted, but I’m not quite sure you’ll like it. So if you don’t want it just tell me and I’ll be happy to keep it. After...

It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love; it is the aim of the action.

Every new encounter provides a new mirror for me to view my own experiences through, and there is a level of selfishness during this period as I hunger to understand more about the girls’ lives...

But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she’d say, when there are so many out there that need our help?

Everyone is good at heart. We all do things with the greatest of intentions and most of the time we do it for selfish reasons. Myself included.

Sometimes you need to be a little selfish because kindness is seldom appreciated.

Service that is purely self serving, becomes a vice.Do not serve, vice.

[On Schopenhauer in Black and White] Schopenhauer’s views of love are flawed. Love can’t be merely an illusion of the mind to aid in procreation, but the path to redemption for an otherwise violently selfish...

The best charity to serve humanity is just a person’s simplicity of living with his basic necessity

The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don’t live for yourself alone. Live for others too!

A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.

As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork.

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...

The best formula for a prayer that gives J.O.Y:J- 1st, Pray to JESUSO- 2nd, Pray for OTHERSY- 3rd, Pray for YOURSELFMost people distort the formula by praying selfish prayers for their own personal gains. JYO...

We loved our homeland for thousands of years which cost us climate change and environmental degradation because we were too selfish to care about the nature, now it is time that we must love our...

Poetry is one of my guilty pleasures and I want to thank you poets for providing me with beautiful words that I can devour and selfishly indulge in any time I want. ♥-Nina Jean Slack

At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which...

Sometimes we realize that we are like facebook ,people using us for themselves , meeting each other via us , earning via us,taking all credits , even no one talking about us ,just using US...

A common mistake we make is that we look for God in places where we ourselves wish to find him, yet even in the physical reality this is a complete failure. For example, if you...

Teamwork: I love the idea of all for one—especially if that one is me.

believers” because they want God to give them things; a thrill, money, spiritual gifts etc. but they never think twice about what THEY can give to God. They are Christian parasites, always wanting more, rather...

Now I lay me down to sleep,I pray the Lord my soul to keep,And if I die before I wake,I pray the Lord my toys will break.So none of the other kids can use ’em….Amen.

It’s simple. Mankind is a sorry excuse for living creatures. They are cruel, cold, merciless, selfish, heartless, wasteful, greedy, and destructive. But the list goes on. I can spend all night telling you what’s wrong...

Knowledge refined from experience becomes a weight upon wisdom when its driving purpose is solely selfish.

Loving yourself doesn’t make you selfish. When done correctly, the exact opposite occurs, because you know that selfish behaviors are negative for your mind, body and spirit.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people...

I’m just selfish. I have to be for what I do.

Be confidently assured that any ‘gods’ that we build will always have veracious appetites, and sooner or later they will gorge themselves on that which built them.

being self-reliant doesn’t justify becoming selfish

Make your passion your life. Just don’t make it about you.

Often times you may find yourself in a relationship with a guy who looks like he is a mature adult, but then you find out that he’s just a selfish baby underneath that wonderful expensive...

Her kiss could kill us, and my consent signed our death certificates, selfishly and without control. (Eric)