The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead.
Criss JamiTags: arrogance selfishness spirit shine pride paint narcissism cockiness red target forehead
We tend to have a limited concept of spiritual death as saying no only to things we want or covet -- our guilty pleasures and selfish ambitions. But in reality, it means dying inwardly to whatever has control over us. The thing that really controls us may not be what we want. It may be what we fear. Fear can dominate our lives just as strongly as desire.
Nancy R. PearceyTags: fear selfishness anxiety
I am a selfish, conceited, impudent little animal, it is true, but, after all, I am only one grand conglomeration of Wanting…
Mary MacLaneTags: selfishness desire
Nature is infinitely rich and diverse in her ways. She can be seen to break her most unchanging laws. She has made self-interest the motive of all human action, but in the great host of men she produces ones who are strangely constituted, in whom selfishness is scarcely perceptible because they do not place their affections in themselves. Some are passionate about the sciences, others about the public good. They are as attached to the discoveries of others as if they themselves had made them, or to the institutions of public welfare and the state as if they derived benefit from them. This habit of not thinking of themselves influences the whole course of their lives. They don't know how to use other men for their profit. Fortune offers them opportunities which they do not think of taking up.
In nearly all men the self is almost never inactive. You will detect their self-interest in nearly all the advice they give you, in the services they do for you, in the contacts they make, in the friendships they form. They are deeply attached to the things which affect their interests however remotely, and are indifferent to all others. When they encounter a man who is indifferent to personal interest they cannot understand him. They suspect him of hidden motives, of affectation, or of insanity. They cast him from their bosom, revile him.
Tags: selflessness human-nature selfishness self-interest
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.
Shannon CelebiTags: selfish heart wicked selfishness motherhood mother mothers sons wickedness son sons-and-mothers mothers-love
You had once asked me if I was afraid of death.
I said I was afraid of not living.
I don’t want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back, to withdraw, to keep the best in reserve, both overvalues the self, and undervalues what the self is.
Tags: life death self selfishness timidity
A motto of many politicians, public servants and money bags: Ask not 'What can I do for you?' but 'What can I do you for?
H.M. ForesterTags: selfishness greed public-service
Boredom is for the selfish.
Patti DighTags: selfishness boredom moving-forward boredom-and-attitude keep-learning
How good is good enough,since you are only good for your selfishness.
Peter AdejimiTags: individuality life selfishness
I believe I may assert that they were really in possession of deep and growing happiness. It ended. Well, we must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering- and it ended when circumstances caused each to feel that the one's interest was not in the chief consideration in the other's thoughts.
Emily BrontëTags: happiness love selfishness
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