Being Selfish Quotes - Page 3

• Being heartbroken is like having this really horrible freedom. You can be selfish with your thoughts, which can lead to manic creativity, but at the same time you're just really miserable.

  Florence Welch

  Heartbroken, Selfish, Creativity

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• True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish; that, at least, is how I have taught myself to love my wife.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Selfish, Love Is, Generosity

  Stephen L. Carter (2002). “The Emperor of Ocean Park”, Knopf

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• When your kid is being selfish or greedy and you want to help them not be that way, you have to find a way to articulate it and inspire them.

  Louis C. K.

  Selfish, Kids, Inspire

  "Louis C.K.: The ESQ+A". Interview With Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. May 23, 2011.

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• I want to be an NBA all-star and help my team win. That's what it's all about, is winning. I'm a competitor... People said a lot about me being selfish and stuff like that. Getting into the league, I can't wait to shut that down. I'm a guy who wants to play and to win and love my teammates.

  Shabazz Muhammad

  Stars, Selfish, Team

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• Do not be selfish and feel new people will take more of the teacher's attention and you won't get it. That's nonsense. With that attitude, you won't get it. The teacher sees that attitude and will have very little to do with you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Attitude

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• To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Selfish, Sacrifice, Ends

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.307

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• Fear-of not being loved, of abandonment, of being thought to be selfish-is the main thing that keeps us vulnerable and bound in the chains of emotional dependence. Therefore, our two most difficult challenges are to truly believe it is okay for us to be ourselves and to learn to live with, move through, and heal our fears.

  Sue Thoele

  Being Yourself, Selfish, Believe

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• Gods tend to be selfish. Even when they're helpful, they always have their own motives. That's why you have to be careful about trusting them.

  Rick Riordan

  Selfish, Helpful, Be Careful

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• Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Selfish, Joy

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• Even if all we have is a little, the Lord desires us to be joyfully generous, so that He will have for His church an abundance for every good work. Let us not be selfish or deceived by money. In a real sense, money is not a blessing; it's a test.

  Francis Frangipane

  Selfish, Real, Blessing

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• God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.

  William Nicholson

  Selfish, Suffering, Add

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• If the church is going to make a difference, it will need to go through the "big give-up" stage. Churches will need to quit being selfish and become relevant.

  John C. Maxwell

  Giving Up, Selfish, Differences

  Source: enrichmentjournal.ag.org

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• Even if I'm being selfish, but I want you to only look at me.

  Yukiru Sugisaki

  Selfish, Looks, Want

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• I'm trying to teach people not to be selfish. That's the thing. If you have a good thing share it. Of course we're not in a sexual relationship.

  Jhene Aiko

  Selfish, People, Trying

  Source: earstyle.net

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• I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Selfish, Work, Loneliness

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• It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

  Adrian Grenier

  Selfish, Indulge In, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.

  Gene Simmons

  Being Happy, Selfish, People

  "This much I know" by Luke Bainbridge, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2004.

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• The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To live a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that's really the essence of the Christian faith.

  Joel Osteen

  Christian, Integrity, Selfish

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• The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Selfish, Liars, Lying

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• Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

  Douglas Horton

  Im Sorry, Selfish, I Am Sorry

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• You speak of sacrifice, but it is not my sacrifice I offer. It is yours I ask of you," he went on. "I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain. But I love you enough to hope that you will not care that I am being selfish in trying to make the rest of my life--whatever its length--happy, by spending it with you. I want to be married to you, Tessa. I want it more than I have ever wanted anything else in my life.

  Cassandra Clare

  Love, Selfish, Short Life

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• My wit is like your legs," said Xochi. " It would be selfish of me to keep it hidden.

  Dan Wells

  Selfish, Would Be, Legs

  Dan Wells (2014). “Partials series 1-3 (Partials; Fragments; Ruins) (Partials)”, p.61, HarperCollins UK

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• It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

  Hugh Hefner

  Selfish, People, Self Centered

  "Hugh Hefner: What I've Learned" by Wil S. Hylton, www.esquire.com. June 2002.

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• Unconditional love. That’s 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’t 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?

  Alan Lightman

  Selfish, Rain, Ocean

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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

  Giving Up, Selfish, Choices

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