#selfishness

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. ↗

— Richard Bach

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Selfishness is a bad habit. That’s why I always rationally think through my decisions to act without regard for others. ↗

— Bauvard

#habit #rationality #selfishness #funny

Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don't start off being all that lovable, if we're honest. What makes people hard to love? Isn't it what is commonly called selfishness? Selfish people are hard to love because so little love comes out of them. ↗

— William Nicholson

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

— Lao Tzu

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There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.' ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

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Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion. ↗

— Israel Zangwill

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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

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We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

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As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel. ↗

— Rick Danko

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People like us, we think differently, don't we? We are different. We do all the things that others do. But when it comes down to it, we don't need anyone else. We're happy doing what we do and having obligation interferes with that. And sometimes I think we don't even need ourselves. What's most important is to find out whether we're right or not. ↗

— Simon Morden

#obligation #reflection #righteousness #self-discovery #self-esteem