He had the blue kite in his hands; that was the first thing I saw. And I can’t lie now and say my eyes didn’t scan it for any rips.

The ego hates losing – even to God.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.

Despair is a wholly selfish response to fortune’s slings and arrows.

A person who is humble would never be abusive or selfish; so don’t abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.

Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of supreme desire… Fear is the motive which constrains the slave; greed binds the...

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist. Dom Helder Camara – one of the great prophets of Christian...

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if...

Setting boundaries is a way of caring for myself. It doesn’t make me mean, selfish, or uncaring because I don’t do things your way. I care about me too.

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.

The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.

Take taking from those that give & nobody anywhere will need any more such gifts.

Many individuals are so constituted that their only thought is to obtain pleasure and shun responsibility. They would like, butterfly-like, to wing forever in a summer garden, flitting from flower to flower, and sipping honey...

Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.

Let us not be like the forest fox foraging for food for itself forever!Let us be like the assiduous ant, always accumulating ample assets for all ants with altruism and all-round assistance.

What you withhold in this life will be withheld from you in the next.

People pontificate, “Suicide is selfishness.” Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame,...

It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent. On the contrary, teachings can be either taken or dismissed;...

It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole body of which he is an integral part. In the...

It is warm, I am alive, I am calm and sad, I hardly know why. In this existence so even, so tranquil, and so gentle as I have here, I am in an element that...

In his 1907 retirement address, Joseph Pulitzer urged his successors to always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with...

I used to send my characters into a fire that necessarily consumed them, but I have learned, a little, how to send them through the fire to a new place. The characters who do not...

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a ham trying to get it back, and you are it. They know they can’t get...

But selfish isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It only means you take care of yourself and you have to do that to be able to take care of others.

Why are…poor people more ready to share their goods than rich people? The answer is easy: The poor have little to lose; the rich have more to lose and they are more attached to their...

Everyone is out for himself. Not everyone will say so but everyone behaves so. And those that don’t say so often behave in an even more grossly selfish way.

The difference between DREAM and DESIRE is that the dream is what we build for the team and the desire is what we aspire to build for ourselves.

I too often allow people to become a sterile commodity to be bartered in the service of my greed, and in doing something so absurdly reckless I foolishly barter away everything that meets my need.

Left to our own devices, we will make God in our own image.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens ’till parents stop clenching their fists around precious things and people, let go, & trust God!

My problem was not only drinking; it was selfishness. The booze was leading me to put myself ahead of others, especially my family. I loved Laura and the girls too much to let that happen....

Arrogance and selfishness are not the only reasons behind our loneliness, but most often we used to be alone because of them.

Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country’s unity,

…I committed a sin the day I refused you – I discovered metal inside me where my heart should be – forgive me, Love, for acting on principles…

Human beings are obscured by their desire to have and their greed to own preventing their natural cause of “being

Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.

Be selfish and take good care of you first. When you are your best, you can best help others.

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them – and, that...

Mtu anayesema pesa haijampa furaha hana nia ya kusaidia watu.

Confession is for the confessor. It makes you feel good; it ruins the lives of everyone else. It’s a selfish thing to do. Don’t confess.

Sexual temptations are lurking around every corner in our lives today! Resisting the temptation to gratify the flesh is a full-time job.

I do so love hearing people speak passionately on any subject, other than themselves.

One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction;...

If you are not selfish and greedy, you picked up riches along the street.

Up to the present man has hardly cultivated sympathy at all. He has merely sympathy with pain, and sympathy with pain is not the highest form of sympathy. All sympathy is fine, but sympathy with...

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain,...

What a strange sort of love, to be entirely free from that quality of selfishness which is frequently the chief constituent of the passion, and sometimes it’s only one!

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.