#selfish

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#also #give #impulse #involved #love

I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, she's childish, she's immature and because I'm doing a three-book arc I really played that up in the first book. I wanted the reader to be annoyed with her at times. ↗

— Amber Benson

#arc #because #book #childish #create

Don’t shave my head to make your wig of selfishness. Shave it because you care. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #selfish #wig #funny

I've dated athletes before but it's too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both do a very selfish sport. ↗

— Tyson Gay

#because #before #both #dated #deal

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance. ↗

— Buddha

#abundance #count #live #midst #must

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#forlorn #hope #impossible #lovers #pity

I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way. ↗

— David Bowie

#artist #back #being #comes #i

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people. ↗

— Russell Brand

#about #also #be happy #care #expense

A woman asking "Am I good? Am I satisfied?" is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be. ↗

— Barbara Cartland

#am #asking #extremely #fuss #going

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#good health #happiness #health #lacking #lost