#selfishness

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

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There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish. ↗

— Lydia Davis

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Love is the most selfish of all the passions. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

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I content myself with the fact that the general system of our trade is a system of selfishness, is not dictated by the high sentiments of human nature much less by the sentiments of love and heroism but is a system of distrust not of giving, but of taking advantage. ↗

— Joshua Ferris

#system #love

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others. ↗

— Ouida

#selfishness #energy

One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run. ↗

— Mike Norton

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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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

— Jane Austen

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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

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

— Franz Kafka

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