Learning to not be selfish is what has changed in me the most since being married.
being self-reliant doesn't justify becoming selfish
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...
My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn't commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn't go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be...
There is a big difference between being self-ist and being selfish— putting yourself first doesn’t mean you have to put everyone else last.
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.
A selfless act out of even the purest desire to do for others, will be selfish in the satisfaction and happiness it brings to one doing it.
Those are who are selfish are rewarded for being nice. Those who truly care about others feel a smile in return is all the reward they need.
One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one’s own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns and derives from love.
It does not seem ever to have been satisfactorily answered why the two first operational atomic bombs were used — against the strongly voiced wishes of the leading physicists responsible for developing them — to destroy two cities instead of bein...
Obelmäker always suspected Kalist of being a driven man with a determined selfishness that verged on sociopathic, but he actually appears to be suffering for once, in a humane way, like one who has been driven and selfish previously, but has slowly ...
People think if you look after yourself you're being selfish, you know.
Living as I do with human beings, the more that I observe them, the more I am forced to conclude that they are selfish.
Selfish Dreamscapes If you have a dream, as you should, relish in being selfish about building every passionate aspect of it. The crowd of spectators and consumers will still be exactly where you left them... gossiping about everybody else's dream bu...
My son's the most precious thing to me; he's changed me from being selfish to selfless.
How sick one gets of being 'good', how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to...
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish organisms may come out ahead. But selfishness isn't evolutionarily sustainable.
