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#selfishness

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God comes right out and tells us why he gives us more money than we need. It's not so we can find more ways to spend it. It's not so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children. It's not so we can insulate ourselves from needing God's provision. It's so we can give and give generously (2 Corinthians 8:14; 9:11) ↗


— Randy Alcorn


#excess #generosity #giving #less #money

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. ↗


— Albert Camus


#self-centeredness #selfishness #happy

I am a selfish, conceited, impudent little animal, it is true, but, after all, I am only one grand conglomeration of Wanting… ↗


— Mary MacLane


#selfishness #biography

In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. ↗


— David Mitchell


#selfishness

Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish time, and then when we have need of special attention we nobly return for it, confident that we shall be rewarded instead of smacked. ↗


— J.M. Barrie


#selfishness

Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven. ↗


— Anne Rice


#hell #selfishness

I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough. ↗


— Christopher Hitchens


#individualism #libertarianism #objectivism #selfishness #selfishness

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 Derbyshire


#hedonish #selfishness #vanity #pessimism

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. ↗


— Lao Tzu


#embrace #few #manifest #reduce #selfishness

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. ↗


— E. O. Wilson


#among #group #individual #members #mix






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