#selfish

I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever. ↗

— Elton John

#doing #got #i #just #know

But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#american #classic #desire #felt #form

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#accordingly #another #distrust #i #lost

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#disturbs #find #me #men #mischievous

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#selfishness

It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#duty #easier #others #reliable #self

There should always be one more cat than person, so everyone has one to pet, and I have two to myself. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#cats #pet #pets #selfishness #share

We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#empathy #pride #selfishness #empathy

The only gift I have to give, is the ability to receive. If giving is a gift, and it surely is, then my gift to you is to allow you to give to me. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#giving #greed #greedy #humor #receive

Life serves the food, and Death always shows up to the banquet, like an univited guest with nothing in hand to contribute, just to devour everything then leave. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#death #devour #left-with-nothing #life #selfish