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Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and benefit. This is not immoral, but the highest of morality.
I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do.
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
If you want to be wisely selfish, care for others
The only selfish life is a timid one.
One should be selfish bt only getting things which he deserves not what he likes or suits him,,,
Selfish people are, by definition, those whose activities are devoted to bringing themselves happiness. Yet ... these selfish people are far less likely to be happy than those whose efforts are devoted to making others happy.
I never made a decision in my life that wasn't one hundred per cent selfish.
We are all prone to be a little selfish, a little lazy.
The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is responsible, more than any other single factor, for the arrested moral development of mankind.
Considering yourself selflessly selfish is a principle of all great thinkers
There aren't many good things don't have a splinter of selfishness in them somewhere, after all.
I am selfish. I am cruel. My mate cannot be less than I.
It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous.
There's no room for selfishness when you have a defenseless human being depending on you.
Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect
Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.
I am selfish - you have already said so - and as a selfish man I think not of what others would do in my situation, but of what I intend doing myself.
Alexandre Dumas. The Count of Monte Cristo (Kindle Locations 11677-11678).
Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.
Being self-sufficient is not selfish; it is a need. Harming others or yourself is not selfish because it will never benefit the self; it is just stupid.
In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
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There is nothing wrong in being selfish provided you know where your self interest are. Once you start meditating regularly you will come to a stage where you will realize that selfish action are those which brings peace and welfare to all and not only for yourself.
Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.
It's not selfish to give TO yourself as much as you give OF yourself
I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.
Selfishness is neither good nor bad - it depends on the way we are selfish as to whether it nourishes or injures.
Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.
The snowball of selfishness quickly becomes an avalanche.
At times we just want to become selfish.
But selfishness can take on many disguises. It can also be about defending and trying to prove your own belief system while denying there could be value in the beliefs of others.
Selfishness is one of the most destructive forces in man that is why life demands for its death.
There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.
There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.
Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.
Selfishness keeps man blind through life.
How much that the world calls selfishness is only generosity with narrow walls,
a too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife in luxury, or make one's children rich.
Honoring yourself is not selfish, it's vital.
Putting yourself first is not selfish. Quite the opposite. You must put your happiness and health first before you can be of help to anyone else.
Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
I know I'm not a selfish player. People around me know I'm not a selfish player. I do everything I can to make people around me understand I'm not a selfish player.
Sometimes you need to be a little selfish because kindness is seldom appreciated.
We are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reason
because it clashes with our own.
I don't want to have kids and so I am not going to have kids. People who want kids are going to have kids. I'm doing what I want to do and people who want kids are doing what they want to do. What about this scenario makes me selfish?
You're right Acheron. I am a selfish bastard. I had to be, because no one else gave a single shit about me except me
Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.
Selfishness is the root of great evil.
Nurturing your own development isn't selfish. It's actually a great gift to other people.
If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn anyone for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper roots for its causes than we have knowledge of.
Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content.
Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.
Selfish people also tend to have victim mindsets ... Their actions plant seeds of loneliness; then they cry upon the blooming.
No matter which way you dice it, self-preservation is selfish.
It is against law of nature to live a selfish life
Every forward is selfish, and any forward who tells you he is not selfish is a liar.
The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.
To achieve something, you need to be a little selfish...!!
Two kinds of selfish people: the unwise and the wise. Unwise selfish people think only of themselves, and the result is confusion and pain. Wise selfish people know that the best thing they can do for themselves is to be there for others. As a result, they experience joy.
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
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.
If you could leave your selfishness, you would see how you've been torturing your soul.
It's not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and make your happiness a priority. It's necessary.
It's about time we stop mistaking self-knowledge for self-absorption - and realize that nobody has a monopoly on selfishness.
You remind us that we're selfish bastards. You're not one of us, that way.
Self-care is never selfish, but it may feel that way when you live a frenzied life.
I'm a selfish, little pig of a man.
What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness.
She didn't know there were things worse than selfish.
Love sometimes demands to be selfish
Nothing may be more selfish than remorse ...
It was selfish what I asked her to do, even if it wound up being the most unselfish thing I've ever done.
Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully.
It is impossible to be both selfish and happy
The most altruistic man is the most selfish.
Helpful is happy.
Selfish is sad.
(It's not uncommon to confuse the two.)
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
The assumption "It's selfish to have my needs met" makes people crazy not only because it hurts people, but because it isn't true. It isn't logical, and it doesn't make sense. To give a cup of cold water to those who need it, we need to have drunk from it ourselves.
Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
I am. selfish. I am brave. I am
Divergent.
I'm selfish.
Selfish enough to want it all.
And I know if I don't have you ...
... I don't have anything.
[G]iving yourself some loving attention is not selfish. It is sensible. If you feel loved and cherished--even if it is only by yourself--then you will have more love to give to others, too. (83)
I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.
Selfishness is the controlling force of sinful living. It is this motive which pulsates through the natural mind, emotions and will - self-pleasing, self-serving, living for self.
Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete.
You're either selfish, or you're a servant ... but fundamentally selfish people are terrible friends, terrible lovers, terrible spouses, terrible Christians, terrible parents. They leave a terrible legacy. Will you be selfish? Will you be a servant? ... A good marriage is a servant and a servant.
You cannot be other than selfish, for you cannot observe, perceive, or be other than from your perspective of self. All points of Consciousness, even one-celled organisms, perceive. And they do so from the ever-changing selfish perspective that they currently hold.
Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.
I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children
Emotion it self is blindfold. So one second of your life control by emotion it's the definition of selfishness.
The gene is the basic unit of selfishness.
And when someone accuses you of being selfish, just remember that he's upset only because you aren't doing what he selfishly wants you to do.
There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
Selfish is caring for ourselves at others' expense ... Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.
If there is true 'Selfishness,' then there is 'liberation of the Self', and that indeed is one's own form (the Self).
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.