The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: existence selfishness preservation
After our loved one dies: we cry, not because they left; but because they left us.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: friends family death selfishness
It's not my job to make you happy. It's your job to learn that only those who quit selfishly seeking their own happiness find it.
Richelle E. GoodrichTags: happiness happy selfishness joy-of-life seek richelle richelle-goodrich
O young girl, throw yourself again into the water so that I might have a second time the chance to save the two of us!" A second time, eh, what imprudence! Suppose, dear sir, someone actually took our word for it? It would have to be fulfilled. Brr...! the water is so cold! But let's reassure ourselves. It's too late now, it will always be too late. Fortunately!
Albert CamusTags: death salvation selfishness irony
When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.
John CalvinTags: selfishness envy
Selfishness is blind.
Mahatma GandhiTags: selfishness
What Melanie did was no more than all Southern girls were taught to do: to make those about them feel at ease and pleased with themselves. It was this happy feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land in which men were contented, uncontradicted, and safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave the ladies everything in the world, except credit for having intelligence.
Scarlett exercised the same charms as Melanie but with a studied artistry and consummate skill. The difference between the two girls lay in the fact that Melanie spoke kind and flattering words from a desire to make people happy, if only temporarily, and Scarlett never did it except to further her own aims.
Tags: selfishness chauvinism flattery chivalry southern-women
The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self, where we mope and mow, striking sparks, and rubbing phosphorescences out of the walls, and blowing our own breath in our own nostrils, instead of issuing to the fair sunlight of God, the sweet winds of the universe.
George MacDonaldTags: love christianity selfishness george-macdonald
How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it; if you could really look at other men with common curiosity and pleasure; if you could see them walking as they are in their sunny sefishness and their virile indifference! You would begin to be interested in them, because they are not interested in you. You would break out of this tiny and tawdry theatre in which your own little plot is always played, and you would find yourself under a freer sky, in a street full of splendid strangers.
G.K. ChestertonTags: christianity curiosity selfishness strangers others focus
I am a beast until I love as God doth love.
George MacDonaldTags: love flesh selfishness
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