#selfishness

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

— Israel Zangwill

#only #real #real religion #religion #selfishness

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

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

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. ↗

— Jane Austen

#always #because #cure #forgiven #hope

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

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness. ↗

— Alveda King

#both #error #fundamental #getting #human

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

I used to send my characters into a fire that necessarily consumed them, but I have learned, a little, how to send them through the fire to a new place. The characters who do not change — most notably Nakota in Cipher, Bibi in Skin, and Lena in Kink — are motivated by an essential selfishness or self-centeredness, an unwillingness to relinquish control to the process, a refusal to become. ↗

— Kathe Koja

#selfishness #transformation #change

It is possible that our present-day discussion about needs might be framed more by secular psychological theories than by Scripture. If this is so, we should be careful about saying, "Jesus meets all our needs." At first, this has a plausible biblical ring to it. Christ _is_a friend; God _is_ a loving Father; Christians _do_ experience a sense of meaningfulness and confidence in knowing God's love. It makes Christ the answer to our problems. Yet if our use of the term "needs" is ambiguous, and its range of meaning extends all the way to selfish desires, then there will be some situations where we should say that Jesus does not intend to meet our needs, but that he intends to change our needs. ↗

— Edward T. Welch

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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