Quotes of: Selfishness Keyword

In lifting another person, we also lift ourselves.

Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person's Guide to Being Selfless

No key, no tool, no resource is more liberating than love.

Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person's Guide to Being Selfless

There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.

Lydia Davis

I'd make a good friend, not mother. I'm too selfish. I think a lot of mothers are selfish and they end up having children, but I don't want to put some small tiny person through that.

Tracey Emin

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Florence Nightingale

Woodcutter: Selfish! Commoner: What's wrong with that? That's the way we are, the way we live. You just can't live unless you're what you call selfish.

Rashomon

I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.

Javier Bardem

Love is always ready to deny itself, to give, sacrifice, just in the measure of its sincerity and intensity. Perfect love is perfect self-forgetfulness. Hence where there is love in a home, unselfishness is the law. Each forgets self and lives for ot...

James Russell Miller

You wanted to live," he says. "You say that like it's a good thing. A virtue." "What is it really?" I think about this. "Selfish." "Wanting to live is selfish?" "Yes.

Charm & Strange

I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene.

The Selfish Gene

And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, 'You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.

The Selfish Giant

Loving yourself doesn't make you selfish. When done correctly, the exact opposite occurs, because you know that selfish behaviors are negative for your mind, body and spirit.

Look into the stillness

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.

Real Christianity

Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

A garden is beautiful only when it is filled with people; they determine its beauty

Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person's Guide to Being Selfless

Our joy in life is inexorably determined by the degree to which we love.

Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person's Guide to Being Selfless

Children are bad enough--children are rude, selfish, greedy, and unthinking individuals who are unable to distinguish between their own selfish wants and needs and the wants and needs of others. And adults are children with money, alcohol, and power.

Ian Sansom

Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.

Dennis Prager

This selfishness is not only part of me. It is the most living part. It is somehow transcending rather than by avoiding that selfishness that I can bring poise and balance into my life.

This Side of Paradise

No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism