It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.
Robert GreeneTags: goals pleasure selfishness consumption
Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens 'till parents stop clenching their fists around precious things and people, let go,
Gary PattonTags: trust selfishness trusting-god aquisitiveness
It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we
should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than
we have knowledge of.
Tags: human-nature selfishness egoism
I suppose it is that sickness and weakness are selfish things and turn our inner eyes and sympathy on ourselves, whilst health and strength give love rein, and in thought and feeling he can wander where he wills.
Bram StokerTags: love health selfishness sickness
...alone in this city, alone on this sea. The days were strewn about him, he was a drunkard of days. He had achieved nothing. He had his life--it was not worth much--not like a life that, though ended, had truly been something. If I had had courage,he thought, if I had had faith. We preserve ourselves as if that were important, and always at the expense of others. We hoard ourselves. We succeed if they fail, we are wise if they are foolish, and we go onward, clutching, until there is no one--we are left with no companion save God. In whom we do not believe. Who we know does not exist.
James SalterTags: faith loneliness selfishness aging regret
I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.
John FowlesTags: fight weapons shame selfishness resentment brutality john collector fowles
The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don't live for yourself alone. Live for others too!
Israelmore AyivorTags: happiness selfish joy prison self happy selfishness food-for-thought kind generous mentality subsistence egoism personal-joy benevolent detain live-for-others
To be wrecked begins with an experience that pulls you out of your comfort zone and self-centeredness, whether you want it or not.
Jeff GoinsTags: selfishness comfort-zone wrecked
What is it about the American obsession with productivity and responsibility that makes it so difficult for us to allow ourselves a little time to solve the puzzle of our own lives, before it’s too late?
Elizabeth GilbertTags: interview travel selfishness
Bravery is not an act of intelligence; it is just selfishness and stupidity.
M.F. MoonzajerTags: intelligence stupidity bravery selfishness
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