You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle and soft, there's a genuine violence softness and kindness visit on people. Sometimes self-interested is the most generous thing you can be.
Tony KushnerTags: guilt selfishness
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar WildeTags: selfishness
Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.
George EliotTags: selfishness
Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.
Tags: illusions selfishness simplicity greed envy detachment
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert CamusTags: selfishness self-actualization self-centeredness
I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
Fyodor DostoevskyTags: hell individualism selfishness tea irony
Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect
George SandTags: self-respect selfishness
Beware:
At war
Or at peace,
More people die
Of unenlightened self-interest
Than of any other disease.
Tags: peace war death science-fiction selfishness self-interest unenlightened-self-interest
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully.
Tags: wisdom life morality inspiration conscience selfishness encouragement
If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.
P.G. WodehouseTags: humor selfishness
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