#selfishness

Nobody knows you as well as our spouse. And that means no one will be quicker to recognize a change when you deliberately start sacrificing your wants and wishes to make sure his or her needs are met. ↗

— Stephen Kendrick

#sacrifice #selfishness #selflessness #change

Committing suicide essentially said to friends and loved ones and the world at large that you were the only thing that mattered, that your problems were hopeless that you deserved to escape from them and to hell with everyone else. Suicide was nothing more than a way to look in the eye of the people who loved you and say, "My pain is paramount and I want it to end. The pain you will feel when I am gone, and the guilt you will experience at not having been able to stop me, do not matter to me. I am willing for you to suffer for the rest of your life so that I can take the easy way out of mine. ↗

— Christine Warren

#selfishness #suicide #experience

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#educational #gradations #methods #parents #selfishness

The first two letters of her name were M and E and I thought, Yes! Finally, a name I can relate to. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#humor #selfish #selfishness #funny

Love is always ready to deny itself, to give, sacrifice, just in the measure of its sincerity and intensity. Perfect love is perfect self-forgetfulness. Hence where there is love in a home, unselfishness is the law. Each forgets self and lives for others. But where there is selfishness it mars joy. One selfish soul will destroy the sweetness of life in any home. It is like an ugly bush in the midst of a garden of flowers. It was selfishness that destroyed the first home and blighted all the loveliness of Paradise; and it has been blighting lovely things in earth's home ever since. We need to guard against this spirit. ↗

— J.R. Miller

#love #selfishness #life

If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy. ↗

— Criss Jami

#happiness #happy #inconsiderate #peace #problem

My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful. ↗

— Hattie McDaniel

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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. ↗

— Adam Smith

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There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S. ↗

— James K. Polk

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Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow. I have no kindness for you, and know you have as little for me. I will not, therefore, take any pains upon your account; and should I labour with you upon my own account, in expectation of a return, I know I should be disappointed, and that I should in vain depend upon your gratitude. Here then I leave you to labour alone; You treat me in the same manner. The seasons change; and both of us lose our harvests for want of mutual confidence and security. ↗

— David Hume

#farming #individualism #selfishness #change