Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.
Harry TrumanTags: wisdom selfishness government problems greed troubles trouble cause-of-trouble national-troubles problems-in-the-world
What are you really living for? It's crucial to realize that you either glorify God, or you glorify something or someone else. You're always making something look big. If you don't glorify God when you're involved in a conflict, you inevitably show that someone or something else rules your heart.
Ken SandeTags: selfishness idolatry glory-of-god
Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: people human-nature selfishness malice
Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.
Rick YanceyTags: selfishness egotism
The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.
Thomas MertonTags: god pleasure selfishness
One of the effects of original sin is an instinctive prejudice in favour of our own selfish desires. We see things as they are not, because we see them centered on ourselves. Fear, anxiety, greed, ambition and our hopeless need for pleasure all distort the image of reality that is reflected in our minds. Grace does not completely correct this distortion all at once: but it gives us a means of recognizing and allowing for it. And it tells us what we must do to correct it. Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.
Thomas MertonTags: sin selfishness original-sin
How arrogant you are
To think your wretched Self so singular!
The disappointments of this world will die
In less time than the blinking of an eye,
And as the earth must pass, pass by the earth
Don't even glance at it, know what it's worth;
What empty foolishness it is to care
For what must one day be dispersed to air!
Tags: life money wealth selfishness hoarding
The problem is hedonism. The problem is the preening vanity and selfishness of 'coming out,' of parading private inclinations, of a kind that repel normal people, as if those inclinations were, all by themselves, marks of authenticity and virtue, of suffering and oppression.
John DerbyshireTags: vanity selfishness egotism hedonish
In the end, even the “yes” to love is a source of suffering, because love always requires expropriations of my “I”, in which I allow myself to be pruned and wounded. Love simply cannot exist without this painful renunciation of myself, for otherwise it becomes pure selfishness and thereby ceases to be love.
Pope Benedict XVITags: love suffering selfishness
We usually live our lives with the belief that "I sacrifice myself for everyone else," rather than thinking that "everyone else helps me.
Jae Woong KimTags: life philosophy selfishness attitude
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