You might have good, moral efforts of working hard and earning money in order to help feed the poor or something along those lines – and then you get the money you’ve been seeking and...

The bedrock of corruption is the attitude of selfishness. Nations are ruined when politicians think for themselves first before thinking about anyone else!

How catastrophic is it when the church herself becomes secularized and expressive individualism sits in the driver’s seat in the church’s life and mission. When the church has lost connection with Christ her living head,...

To be wrecked begins with an experience that pulls you out of your comfort zone and self-centeredness, whether you want it or not.

And if redemption was self-serving, coming as it did ribbon-tied to what he wanted most in life? For once, Akiva’s shame wouldn’t rise to the bait. He wanted what he’d always wanted, and he’d better...

But then, I knew so little about my mother over the last decade of her life. I had been too wrapped up in my own drama.

Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and anyone who would claim to have discovered the opposite. No one...

Selfishness squelches love.

You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it’s not always kind to be gentle and soft, there’s a genuine violence softness and kindness visit...

Selfishness is a bad habit. That’s why I always rationally think through my decisions to act without regard for others.

A mean person is one who would mean nothing with his words or even deed for his life is solely driven with a single motive to fulfill always his own greed.

It is not within my power to refuse the journey of life regardless of the nature of my fears or the depth of my selfishness, for the definitions of ‘journey’ and ‘life’ are indistinguishably synonymous....

If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.

The word ‘love,’ used in connection with the reproduction of our species, is the most odious blasphemy taught in our times.

The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one’s narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in...

People don’t want other people to be people.

Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are not for public consumption, because they would either be hurtful or else just make us look like the selfish and unkind bastards we are. We don’t share...

We tend to have a limited concept of spiritual death as saying no only to things we want or covet — our guilty pleasures and selfish ambitions. But in reality, it means dying inwardly to...

Selfishness creates greed and greed destroys the soul.

When we’re constantly thinking about ourselves, our world shrinks.

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

I thought he’d pick me, I know he has kids, but when it came down to it, I really thought he’d pick me.”Tears rolled down her face and her nose ran. She sniffed.”I know I’m...

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.

Too often we want to take stands to elevate us rather than elevate a cause.

I love myself.

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, yet everyone takes the happy person for...

…and as a result yet today we are unable to distinguish between sympathy and selfishness.

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires

I”, in which I allow myself to be pruned and wounded. Love simply cannot exist without this painful renunciation of myself, for otherwise it becomes pure selfishness and thereby ceases to be love.

I gave too much to people…. So much selfish people in life.

Selfish needs, wants, and desires needed to be obliterated. Greed, overindulgence, and gluttony had to be expunged from human behavior. The solution was in self-control, in minimalism, in sparse living conditions; one simple and a...

It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be...

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Nafasi yako peponi itapotea iwapo utamruhusu Pluto (kiongozi wa ahera) akukaribishe bazarai (makao makuu ya ahera) kwa kuchukua maisha yako mwenyewe. Kujiua ni kujipenda zaidi kuliko unaowapenda. Anayejiua hujifikiria zaidi yeye kuliko wengine.

Don’t try to hog loneliness and keep it all to yourself. Share it with a special someone.

My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close to the present one, meaninglessly like the present one, I would disappear from...

It’s way too easy to see the real face of a person. They’re amiable and full of pretense when they want something from you, but the minute you don’t give in, back away or put...

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness… & … Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is...

Don’t feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is...

«Hai il dono di comparire proprio quando la mia mente è piena del tuo nome e perfino della tua immagine. Ma, Stephen, mio caro, sei così pallido e magro! Ti danno da mangiare? Sei stato...

I respect all the innocent souls because they are kind enough to forgive the selfish people around them.

The practice of that which is ethically best—what we call goodness or virtue—involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence....

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Show a single way in which something can be said really good and it does not affect the self-vested interest of someone anyway.

It is, I think, a far lesser offense to blatantly ignore God’s directions for our lives rather than arrogantly think ourselves shrewd enough to be able to bend them to our liking without breaking them...

[S]elfish members win within groups, but groups of altruists best groups of selfish members. (63)

The first two letters of her name were M and E and I thought, Yes! Finally, a name I can relate to.

Nature is infinitely rich and diverse in her ways. She can be seen to break her most unchanging laws. She has made self-interest the motive of all human action, but in the great host of...

The hardest thing of all, is just standing in front of a mirror and not recognizing the reflection.

I knew what it felt like to have no say in who you were as a sexual being. It didn’t just strip away your dignity. It stripped away everything you were: your identity, your self-respect,...