selfishness

Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all__elf-centeredness in its purest form.

The terrible poverty of pride is that there is nothing that can be taken in selfishness which will exceed what is received when nothing is expected and everything is offered.

The ego hates losing _ even to God.

when fertility rates began collapsing in the late 1960s, another demographic transition was occurring, the result of a fundamental restructuring: People no longer put children at the center of their lives. Instead, they put themselves there.

Just two choices on the shelf, pleasing God or pleasing self.

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

Unless we recognize a higher power to whom we are responsible and who observes and knows our actions, we will not transcend the selfishness of our character and the subjectivity of our intellect. If each person is the final arbiter of right and wrong, then __ight_ for him or her will be what he or she desires, regardless of its consequences for the other inhabitants of Earth.

Emotion it self is blindfold. So one second of your life control by emotion it's the definition of selfishness.

Unconditional love. That__ what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return. All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn__ he, by wanting her to love him in return? He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?

The generation that destroys the environment is not the generation that pays the price. That is the problem.

Of course I love you. It is my fault that you have not known it all the while" (the flower to little prince)

Loneliness had made the Queen bitter, bitterness had made her selfish, and selfishness had made her suspicious. --The Changeling

The tide seldom shifts in favor of a selfish individual.

When you sever ties with the unit purely for self-serving intentions, you are likely to find yourself stranded and struggling to survive; fighting to keep your head above water. What__ more, there is no one to save you because you__e turned your back on your comrades and snubbed your support system.

Even the early droplets of selfish decisions suggest a direction. Then the little inflecting rivulets come, merging into small brooks and soon into larger streams; finally one is swept along by a vast river which flows into the __ulf of misery and endless wo_ (Hel. 5:12).

that is the thing about selfish people. theygamble entire beings. entire souls to please their own. one second they are holding you like the world in their lap and the next they have belittled you to a mere picture. a moment. something of the past. one second. they swallow you up and whisper they want to spend the rest of their life with you. but the moment they sense fear. they are already halfway out the door. without having the nerve to let you go with grace. as if the human heart means that little to them.and after all this. after all of the taking. the nerve. isn't it sad and funny how people have more guts these days to undress you with their fingers than they do pick up the phone and call. apologize. for the loss. and this is how you lose her.- selfish

Selfishness is blind.

Each one of us is selfish, including me.