Quotes of: Being-selfish Keyword

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

Israel Zangwill

Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.

Athol Fugard

I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.

Alfred North Whitehead

I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

Robert Mapplethorpe

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

William Cowper

So true it is, and so terrible, too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists our best affections; but, in certain special cases, beyond that point it does not. they err who would assert that invariable this is owing to the i...

Bartleby, the Scrivener

Phaedra keeps saying she's being selfish. That she hates herself for it, but she does it anyway. She can't deny herself what she wants, even if it brings about her downfall and his." "And have you learned anything from our literary parallel?" "Not re...

Losing It

I understand that you are under a lot of pressure and that it's hard being a bride. That is all well and good. But it does not, ever, entitle you to be rude, selfish, uncaring, and generally obnoxious to me or Haven or anyone else. We've been very pa...

The Truth About Forever

When we criticize the suicidal for being selfish, we are actually criticizing them for not enduring their pain with grace and good manners. These are nice qualities; we may be correct to reproach average citizens for not having them. But to expect ev...

Out of the Nightmare: Recovery from Depression and Suicidal Pain

... for you will never, I trust, disconnect what you may yourselves be learning from the hope and prospect of being enabled thereby to teach others more effectually. If you do, and your studies in this way become a selfish thing, if you are content t...

Richard Chevenix Trench

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 it and asks to be paid, withhold $5 and explain that this is income tax. Give $1 to his y...

Joseph Sobran

Punishment? You don’t have any right to punish me. And I can curse. I choose not to most of the time, but don’t think it doesn’t go through my head, asshole. I was trying to give you something. I was trying to give you my body.” “That’s w...

A Dom is Forever

To a vampire, there is only selfishness.

Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

Is it selfish for me to crave victory or is it brave?

Divergent

Boredom is for the selfish.

What I Wish For You: Simple Wisdom for a Happy Life

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde

Choose altruism, because selfishism is a lonely, cold, dark hole.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

Lao Tzu

I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.

Pink

It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

Adrian Grenier

My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.

Hattie McDaniel