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Being selfish only benefits a few. Considering others benefits all of mankind.
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).
But selfish isn't necessarily a bad thing. It only means you take care of yourself and you have to do that to be able to take care of others.
The only selfish life is a timid one.
If you are not selfish you will not be altruistic, remember.
The craziest, most selfish act is to commit suicide. When you kill yourself, you kill others.
Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.
It is impossible to be both selfish and happy
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.
It is against law of nature to live a selfish life
Selfish is easy. It's sharing that takes courage.
Are you willing to nourish your heart with love; then your selfishness will starve to death.
The snowball of selfishness quickly becomes an avalanche.
There's no room for selfishness when you have a defenseless human being depending on you.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Selfish - a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.
There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.
Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.
Selfishness is self-absorption, self-seeking behaviour that either disregards the rights and needs of others or tramples them deliberately in favour of personal gain.
Self-care is never selfish, but it may feel that way when you live a frenzied life.
It's about time we stop mistaking self-knowledge for self-absorption - and realize that nobody has a monopoly on selfishness.
If there is true 'Selfishness,' then there is 'liberation of the Self', and that indeed is one's own form (the Self).
Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.
Sometimes you just need to be selfish to be self-sufficient.
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.
It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous.
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 not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
It was selfish what I asked her to do, even if it wound up being the most unselfish thing I've ever done.
M'ijita. That is not what it is for. And selfish reasons are almost always the wrong reasons.
Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness.
It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.
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 can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.
In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content.
Selfishness is neither good nor bad - it depends on the way we are selfish as to whether it nourishes or injures.
[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)
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully.
Nothing may be more selfish than remorse ...
There aren't many good things don't have a splinter of selfishness in them somewhere, after all.
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.
A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do.
Selfish people tend to only be good to themselves ... then are surprised when they are alone.
Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
Honoring yourself is not selfish, it's vital.
I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.
It's not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and make your happiness a priority. It's necessary.
Selfishness at the core is to think you have a special problem- a problem that God cannot deal with, that God didn't deal with at the cross. You do not have anything special that has been dealt out to you.
Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete.
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.
We're all selfish. It's an age thing. We go spotty, disobedient and daft. But most of all, we go selfish
There is nothing selfish about enjoying yourself. In fact, as wise people have long said and psychologists have since discovered, happiness makes people less self-focused and more altruistic.
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.
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.
Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.
It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.
She didn't know there were things worse than selfish.
I am selfish. I am brave.
Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer
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
Nothing is more condemnable than selfishness. A man who thinks of himself alone is the most unlucky person of all.
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
It's not selfish to be yourself and pursue your dreams.
On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity.
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.
There are no unselfish acts. When people do something for someone else, it's always for their own personal psychological reasons.
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.
Choose to put yourself first and make you a priority. It's not selfish, it's necessary.
The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.
Live generously.
It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
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.
You remind us that we're selfish bastards. You're not one of us, that way.
The selfish man cuts away the sand from under his own feet, he digs his own grave; and every time, from the beginning of the world until now, God Almighty pushes him into the grave and covers him up.
Stanbrook once told me," he said, "that suicide is the worst kind of selfishness, as it is often a plea to specific people who are left stranded in the land of the living, unable for all eternity to answer the plea
Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect
I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.
Selfish or not, I came first, and his brush off was far too easy.
I would let love rule in my heart and take a piece of my soul, but I would never let its loss destroy all of me.
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.
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
Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are.
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.
I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.
When it's about your life, it's time to be selfish.
There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love - and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable.
the lust for glory is a selfish endevour.
The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.
When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best decision, to make an incrediable self-image is the best.
Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
Be not selfish in your doings: pass it on.
Acting selflessly in the interests of others is one of the noblest things you can do. If you act in a kind and considerate way, everyone around you will benefit.
Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.
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A selfish life isn't God's purpose for you