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.

To be blessed and yet permit gluttony to blind me to the blessings is to banish myself to a life of unrelenting poverty even though I might be utterly engulfed in the embrace of a...

Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we are moved to prevent suffering, not just avenge it?

The faculty to think objectively is reason; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility. To be objective, to use one’s reason, is possible only if one has achieved an attitude of humility, if...

What Melanie did was no more than all Southern girls were taught to do: to make those about them feel at ease and pleased with themselves. It was this happy feminine conspiracy which made Southern...

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives… I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that...

It was only that she wanted him to be happy, resenting, however, his inability to be so with things as they were, and never acknowledging that though she did want him to be happy, it...

I always knew he was selfish and self-indulgent and kind of lazy; those are practically prerequisites for playing lead guitar.

Throughout the 1980’s, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear enough a bout how to be a good member of a community, to...

The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.

It is an infirmity of our nature to mingle our interests and prejudices with the operation of our reasoning powers, and attribute to the objects of our likes and dislikes qualities they do not possess...

…only in relatively recent times have people decided that “because I want to” is sufficient reason for annoying others.

In 1948, psychologists asked more than 10,000 adolescents whether they considered themselves to be a very important person. At that point, 12 percent said yes. The same question was asked in 2003, and this time...

…children are at heart selfish, and reasonably so, for they are programmed for survival.

Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our...

If we are to build that Zion of which the prophets have spoken and of which the Lord has given mighty promise, we must set aside our consuming selfishness. We must rise above our love...

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Don’t ever feel sad about who you are. Don’t wish to be a daughter or son to a wealthy home, just because you think you’re poor. Look! Everybody’s poor, i discovered it when i realized...

Being a ‘good’ parent is more about the parent, and, less about the ‘supposedly-could-have-been-bad’ child.

I don’t want to be just another thing mary elizabeth is in charge of

Each one of us is selfish, including me.

That she had loved Sylveste because he was such a self-important bastard and made something noble of being a self-important bastard, did it with such utter aplomb that it became a kind of virtue, like...

Selfishness is the biggest form of helplessness as it makes the person blind so much that he fails to search his true self for being always in the lurch

Committing suicide essentially said to friends and loved ones and the world at large that you were the only thing that mattered, that your problems were hopeless that you deserved to escape from them and...

A motto of many politicians, public servants and money bags: Ask not ‘What can I do for you?’ but ‘What can I do you for?

There should always be one more cat than person, so everyone has one to pet, and I have two to myself.

He can’t play with other children. Because of their age and selfishness, they really don’t play together.

My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a lot of brotherhood. The ’80s were about acquiring — acquiring wealth, power, prestige....

We Are Always Scared of Wild Beasts, Yet We Are Unaware About The Wildest Beast Within Us Which Does More Harm Than The Ordinary One….