Selfish Quotes
Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.
Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the chocolate industry’s use of minors.
Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.
As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive for many years has become a boy again.
i wanted to destroy you.you are mine to ruin.something so beautifulshould only exist for me.
Only the foolish would think that wisdom is something to keep locked in a drawer. Only the fearful would feel empowerment is something best kept to oneself, or the few, and not shared with all.
Despite the voices of the culture that would scream otherwise, victory is irreparably tied to the surrender of self. And that explains why so few are truly victorious.
Betrayal is advancing myself at the expense of the one who I committed myself to advance.
You shouldn’t live for yourself alone but you must also learn to live the Christian life
Sub-consciousness is extremely selfish, it will do anything to keep you safe and main in a comfort zone
If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you'd be wasting your time while others are learning how to climb the tree
To belong somewhere. That was something much more important than belonging to someone. Now, he used to think to himself that maybe he took too serious that 'mission' of belonging somewhere.
It’s easy to count other people’s mistakes. Make your own if you can.
Americans today confuse freedom with not being asked to sacrifice. The fact that you can't have everything you want exactly when you want it has somehow become un-American.
I am thankful that there are those among us who have sacrificed dearly on behalf of us. And I ardently pray to God that I might be less like myself and more like them.
The best I can do is to ‘pretend’ that I’m my own god. But in the pretending I have to pretend that I’m not pretending, and somehow that doesn’t sound very god-like to me.
Maybe what I need to be rescued from is the feeling that I don’t need to be rescued, for without a doubt this is the most difficult rescue of all.
Our prayers are something akin to delivering a list, verses surrendering a life. The former will always leave me creating the next list, while the latter will leave me creating a new life.
In one way or another, every mission that I have ever set out on to rescue myself is yet another mission that I end up needing to be rescued from. Hence, there is God.
If I were to sit down and count them, how many of my prayers were tainted by the seduction of greed? None, simply because nothing of that sort is a prayer.
Directing praise to oneself is to cash in on the ego in order to bankrupt the soul.
If there is true ‘Selfishness, ’ then there is ‘liberation of the Self’, and that indeed is one’s own form (the Self).
Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons.
I am selfish by habit, but sacrificial by nature. Therefore, I’d be wise to develop the habit of following my nature.
The purpose of karma yoga is to transcend the bondage of selfish genes through the service of others.
We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say.
In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.
In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.
Neither turn to thy own way nor seek thy own gain. But inquire the good way's of God.
DOOR MONEY” To focus on door money means one is paying so much attention to the amount of money they are making at the door they do not consider there is much more profit to be made inside a venue.
*Prostitution* is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from.
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.
Oh God, please find it within your heart to grant me a heart that looks after itself only because it has first looked after others. And help me to realize that anything less is not a heart.
The ego is what drives a self-serving individual who hates to admit they are wrong.
Beware of those who are too focused with polishing and beautifying their outer shells. They lack true substance to understand that genuine beauty is reflected from the heart that resides inside.
You are not one of Pentrigrel’s creations. This is not where you belong. He will not keep his word to you. He is concerned only with himself. You cannot condemn yourself to this over Lunette’s fate.
If your love for another person doesn’t include loving yourself then your love is incomplete.
We are selfish, my illness and I. We think only of ourselves. We shape the world around us into messages, into secret whispers spoken only for us.
The eyes of love have 20/20 vision when focused on another, and become entirely blind when focused on ourselves.
When you are happy for other people's dreams, your dreams start jumping up with joy. Elizabeth was happy with Mary and her dream baby was jumping in her womb crazily for joy!
But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are so many out there that need our help?
Her kiss could kill us, and my consent signed our death certificates, selfishly and without control. (Eric)