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The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within.
Guru Gobind Singh
The highest contentment and enduring tranquility are attained when one expunges selfishness from within.
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Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.
Oscar Wilde
'Selfishness is not following your own desires, but instead demanding that others adhere to yours.'
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I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.
Elvis Costello
I long for the outline of your embrace.
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Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
Sri Aurobindo
Our primary foe is not an outside power, but our own infirmities, our timidity, our self-absorption, our duplicity, our shortsighted sentimentality.
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It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a 'higher standard of living than any have ever known.' It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Any opposition not based on rationalism or science or experience will one day or other, reveal the fraud, selfishness, lies and conspiracies.
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Any opposition not grounded in rationality or truthfulness or actuality will ultimately display the deceit, self-interest, falsehoods and plots.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
Booker T. Washington
We should all ascend above the fog of incompetence, lack of knowledge, and self-centeredness.
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The absolute desire of 'having more' encourages the selfishness that destroys communal bonds among the children of God. It does so because the idolatry of riches prevents the majority from sharing the goods that the Creator has made for all, and in the all-possessing minority it produces an exaggerated pleasure in these goods.
Oscar Romero
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The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, and which separates us from God and produces so many contagious spiritual disorders, is selfishness.
Ellen G. White
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The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.
J. C. Ryle
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Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.
Harry S. Truman
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.
Adam Smith
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Caring for our own hearts isn't selfishness; it's how we begin to love.
John Eldredge
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Every moral act of love, of mercy, and of sacrifice brings to pass the end of the world where hatred, cruelty, and selfishness reign supreme.
Nikolai Berdyaev
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The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!
Neal A. Maxwell
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Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.
Jose Rizal
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If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed - then I believe we are getting closer to God.
Daniel Ortega
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Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity.
Mwai Kibaki
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The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.
Rudolf Steiner
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Failing to hold someone accountable is ultimately an act of selfishness.
Patrick Lencioni
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It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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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Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.
William Wilberforce
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Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
Richard Dawkins
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If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!
Joyce Meyer
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I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds I sow I will harvest, because every action, good or bad, is always followed by an equal reaction. I will plant only good seeds this day.
Og Mandino
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At no time and in no circumstances should a Communist place his personal interests first; he should subordinate them to the interests of the nation and of the masses. Hence, selfishness, slacking, corruption, seeking the limelight, and so on, are most contemptible, while selflessness, working with all one's energy, whole-hearted devotion to public duty, and quiet hard work will command respect.
Mao Zedong
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The State must act as the guardian of a millennial future in the face of which the wishes and the selfishness of the individual must appear as nothing and submit.
Adolf Hitler
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When Christ's love fills our hearts, it puts selfishness on the run.
Billy Graham
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Love is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to service.
Jack Hyles
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
Anton Chekhov
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Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world.
Neal A. Maxwell
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Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness.
J. C. Ryle
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Be not in the desire of thine own ease.
Saadi
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
Tertullian
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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
Elizabeth Bowen
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It is not up to us to particularize, but rather to deduce that the concepts of human rights originated from the divine influence because, as far as we are concerned, we are compelled to recognize our slow individual evolution from fierce selfishness toward a universal love, from the iniquity toward true justice.
Chico Xavier
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These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist.
Laura Schlessinger
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Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.
Julio Cortazar
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If you could leave your selfishness, you would see how you've been torturing your soul.
Rumi
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And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.
Paulo Coelho
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Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.
Bill Walton
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Love is the most ethically consistent experience, because selfishness and altruism no longer seem opposed or in conflict.
Peter Breggin
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Those who blamed aggression formed Amity.’… ‘Those who blamed ignorance became the Erudite.’… ‘Those who blamed duplicity created Candor.’… ‘Those who blamed selfishness made Abnegation.’… ‘And those who blamed cowardice were the Dauntless.
Veronica Roth
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When marriage exposes a person's selfishness and sins it's doing what it is meant to do: bringing our sins and wounds to light so we can recognize them, confess them, and begin the healing process.
Christopher West