#selfish

I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness. ↗

— Michael Zaslow

#afraid #am #because #being #decent

I've gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends and kind of selfish. ↗

— Ashley Greene

#friends #go #go away #good #gotten

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance. ↗

— Graham Greene

#egotism #either #else #evil #happy

It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back. ↗

— Adrian Grenier

#enough #giving #giving back #happiness #indulge

We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#better #doing #else #even #halfway

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#born #great #great achievement #never #result

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved. ↗

— Lauren Holly

#astonished #back #good #good parent #how

I know that sounds selfish, but you have to look at what it's doing to you personally - are you frustrated because of the way people perceive you, or are you happy enough about the things you've realized about yourself that you can tolerate the way people perceive you? ↗

— Shannon Hoon

#because #doing #enough #frustrated #happy

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#after #being #highest #only #seeing

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#cold #friendship #get #may #most