Human beings appear to be sufficiently selfish and calculating to be capable of indefinitely greater harmony and social homeostasis. This statement is not self-contradictory. True selfishness, if obedient to the other constraints of mammalian biology,...

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...

Being self-sufficient is not selfish; it is a need. Harming others or yourself is not selfish because it will never benefit the self; it is just stupid.

When your child is a little older, you can teach him about our tax system in a way that is easy to grasp. Offer him, say, $10 to mow the lawn. When he has mowed...

The problem is hedonism. The problem is the preening vanity and selfishness of ‘coming out,’ of parading private inclinations, of a kind that repel normal people, as if those inclinations were, all by themselves, marks...

Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues. Other than beginning and ending with prayer, mentioning Christ, and sprinkling in some...

What did I get in return? Coldness and emotional detachment. You are selfish and bitter and you wouldn’t know a good thing if it fell out of the sky at your feet.

The sad reality of Mankind: Faith is the currency people trade in, through their ego and selfish ways.

The hatred I feel for him, for the phantom girl, for everything, is so real and immediate that it chokes me. Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable. Why did it take...

You selfish bitch!”She had known for a long time that putting her needs above those of Adam’s wife and children was indeed selfish. She had no real answer to the accusation thrown at her.”I’m sorry”...

…perhaps great sins start as simple weakness, and the consistent placing of self before others.

Have we ever thought to consider that we create values that ‘feel’ right because they serve our current agendas, which is an infinitely different thing from values that ‘are’ right because they serve an eternal...

We usually live our lives with the belief that “I sacrifice myself for everyone else,” rather than thinking that “everyone else helps me.

If the people we’re talking about are all my clones, then yes, I am a people person. I really do care. Ask me out or invite me in, and I’ll say yes—especially if you are...

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

pretending to be good might be the same with pretending to be right, its just you are selfish on your own because you think only for yourself..

Their arrogance protected them against any liking for their fellow-man, against the slightest interest in the strangers sitting all about them, amidst whom M. de Stermaria adopted the manner one has in the buffet-car of...

Wanaume wanaojiua kwa sababu ya mapenzi ni wanawake; wanawake wanaojiua kwa sababu ya fedha ni wanaume.

Every hour so many damn things in the sky! How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn’t someone want to talk about it! We’ve started and...

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

Failure doesn’t means falling down; it means hiding somewhere to safeguard own interest.

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred...

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