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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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• Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

  Julio Cortazar

  Results, Selfish World, Humans

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• No man will work for your interests unless they are his.

  David Seabury

  Inspirational, Selfish, Men

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• Selfishness is when we pursue gain at the expense of others. But God doesn’t have a limited number of treasures to distribute. When you store up treasures for yourself in heaven, it doesn’t reduce the treasures available to others. In fact, it is by serving God and others that we store up heavenly treasures. Everyone gains; no one loses.

  Randy Alcorn

  Numbers, Heaven, Facts

  Randy Alcorn (2012). “The Treasure Principle: Discovering the Secret of Joyful Giving”, p.19, Multnomah

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• A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.

  Barbara Cartland

  Husband, Selfish, Trying

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• In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Selfish, Exercise, Earth

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1978). “A twentieth century testimony”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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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

  Heavy, Hardest, Lifting

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• Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.

  Gene Fowler

  Confidence, Men

  "Skyline: A Reporter's Reminiscence of the 1920s". Book by Gene Fowler, 1961.

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• To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Happiness, Selfish, Stupid

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.62, Harvard University Press

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• He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Fall, Temporary Insanity

  Poor Richard's Almanack, May 1738

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• When Christ's love fills our hearts, it puts selfishness on the run.

  Billy Graham

  Running, Heart, Christ

  Twitter post from Jun 11, 2013

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• What it felt to me was like the dissolution of my idea of myself. I felt like separateness evaporated. I felt this tremendous sense of oneness. I'm quite an erratic thinker, quite an adrenalized person, but through meditation, I found this beautiful serenity and selfless connection. My tendency towards selfishness, I felt that kind of exposed as a superficial and pointless perspective to have. I felt very relaxed, a sense of oneness. I felt love.

  Russell Brand

  Beautiful, Ideas, Oneness

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• There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it without power to save it. In a small way, every single one of us counts.

  Pete Seeger

  Music, Beautiful, World

  "The Pete Seeger Reader".

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• To practice properly the Art of Peace, you must: Calm the spirit and return to the source. Cleanse the body and spirit by removing all malice, selfishness, and desire. Be ever grateful for the gifts received from the universe, your family, Mother nature, and your fellow human beings.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Mother, Gratitude, Art

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.56, Shambhala Publications

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• The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is responsible, more than any other single factor, for the arrested moral development of mankind.

  Ayn Rand

  Moral Development, Intellectual, Individualism

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.7, Penguin

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• Love has no meaning if it isn't shared. We have been created for greater things - to love and to be loved... To love a person without any conditions, without any expectations. Small things, done in great love, bring joy and peace. To love, it is necessary to give. To give, it is necessary to be free from selfishness.

  Mother Teresa

  Giving, Great Love, Expectations

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• The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God, is as powerful as God; only he has no holiness that makes him a devil. Apply the same idea to the modern world: excess of knowledge and power, without holiness, makes human beings devils.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Powerful, Differences, Knowledge And Power

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.102, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Country

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2076, Manonmani Publishers

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• In a world often marked by selfishness, a large family is a school of solidarity and sharing; and this attitude is to the benefit of society as a whole.... I always thank the Lord in seeing mothers and fathers of large families, together with their children, committed to the life of the Church and of society.

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Children, Attitude

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• When we focus on others, our world expands.

  Daniel Goleman

  Our World, Focus, Empathy

  Daniel Goleman (2011). “Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships”, p.54, Random House

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• In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Selfish, Way, Rooms

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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

  Basketball, Hate, Today

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• I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

  Oscar Levant

  Selfish, Book, Reading

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• You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.

  Anita Brookner

  Selfish, Ideas, Decision

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• You shouldn't punish others for your own choices.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Choices, Being Selfish, Selfish World

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