As long as greed is the root of all evil, there will not be peace.Get rid of selfishness and greed too will disappear.

It’s easy to make a mess when you’re not the one who has to clean it up.

Just two choices on the shelf, pleasing God or pleasing self.

I suppose it is that sickness and weakness are selfish things and turn our inner eyes and sympathy on ourselves, whilst health and strength give love rein, and in thought and feeling he can wander...

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. &It is also in the interests of a tyrant...

Kujiua ni ubinafsi kwa sababu ya watu wanaokupenda.

Love is always ready to deny itself, to give, sacrifice, just in the measure of its sincerity and intensity. Perfect love is perfect self-forgetfulness. Hence where there is love in a home, unselfishness is the...

I believe I may assert that they were really in possession of deep and growing happiness. It ended. Well, we must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more...

You don’t build a family by tearing down another one.

Sometimes, one yearns for something.For the ultimate in happiness. I yearn for it,and don’t know where to look for it any longer. And I don’t know if I would recognize it if I found it....

The goal of marriage is not happiness, it is holiness…There is no mechanism whereby God can sanctify a person more than having them live in close proximity to another imperfect person….Our fundamental problem is that...

Relinquishing selfish wants, one is free to allow others to travel their own paths under the will of God. (18)

Maybe you’ve gotten through something and when you did you thought, I am leaving that behind and will never return. And that’s a great way of thinking…for selfish jerks.If we actually care about people other...

You, sir, are not only a selfish asshole, but you’re a coward. You didn’t have the balls to stand and fight for what was yours, instead you chose to flee and force others into a...

It took so long to find you…and now I don’t want it to change. I want it all set in amber. I want us and nobody else in the most selfish way you can imagine....

More a person starts understanding the people’s basic nature; the better he feels to have always fewer friends for his experience basically must have given him the best lesson as his life’s good teacher.

Contrary to popular opinion, we are all a vast brotherhood of human beings whose very survival hinges not on what we keep, but on what we give. And it is in the giving that we...

Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by...

This selfishness is not only part of me. It is the most living part.It is somehow transcending rather than by avoiding that selfishness that I can bring poise and balance into my life.

I wish I could break this window. Step through it. But I can’t break this window. I can’t even find some less dramatic way to die inside of this school, like hanging myself or slitting...

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

Do you know, I am putting off ending this letter as though the end would be the end of something I want to hold on to. That’s not true of course – just a feeling...

Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this rule has never deceived me

When we don’t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.

I have two ways of loving You: A selfish one And another way that is worthy of You. In my selfish love, I remember You and You alone. In that other love, You lift the...

One of the effects of original sin is an instinctive prejudice in favour of our own selfish desires. We see things as they are not, because we see them centered on ourselves. Fear, anxiety, greed,...

Selfishness, self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate. Sometimes they...

Some of us -” She paused as she sought the words. ” – don’t die unless we want to. The selfish ones never do.

I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.

The creation of man is evidence for the love of God, the preservation of man is evidence for the patience of God, and Christ is evidence for the forgiveness of God. It is when we...

I’m not interested in the next generation, dear. I’m interested in us.’ – Julia

How tolerable misfortunes appear when they affect only other people! How strong the human body seems when it’s another man’s flesh that bleeds! How easy it is to look death in the face when it’s...

Walter had never liked cats. They’d seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries fetishize...

Selfishness is the unwillingness to give up your soul for the rehabilitation of your future.

After our loved one dies: we cry, not because they left; but because they left us.

She was a goddamn unicorn of selfishness.

Of all the vices which degrade the human character, Selfishness is the most odious and contemptible. An undue love of Self leads to the most mon strous crimes and occasions the greatest misfortunes both in...

Sometimes it feels like saying all and then someone’s lifestyle makes it to think if there is anyone to accept it at all.

A true generous heart can never revolve majorly with monetary skills nor business acumen nor cunning mind.

Women who say that they have met the most amazing guy in the world are only saying that because they haven’t lived with them yet.

…alone in this city, alone on this sea. The days were strewn about him, he was a drunkard of days. He had achieved nothing. He had his life–it was not worth much–not like a life...

I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

He could not believe that any of them might actually hit somebody. If one did, what a nowhere way to go: killed by accident; slain not as an individual but by sheer statistical probability, by...

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.

How about that for a utopian answer?” To my not particularly utopian nose, crushed selfishness smells a lot like cilantro.

All love may begin by being passionate, especially for younger people. But in the process of living together, they have to learn and practice love, so that selfishness–the tendency to possess–will diminsh, and the elemetns...

She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back.

Am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure personages is the only...

One can change the small minds, but it is tad difficult to do it with the small heart whose soul is in small mind only.