Selfish Quotes - Page 40

• 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, Creativity, Miserable

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• How I wish I could hug everyone and tell them that it's okay. It's okay to be scared and angry and hurt and selfish. It's part of being human.

  Frank Warren

  Life, Hurt, Hug

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• I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.

  Janos Kadar

  Party, Mean, Ideas

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• Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Essence, Self Centered, Realizing

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• Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.

  Edward Albert

  Selfless, Sometimes, Being Selfish

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• Whenever I release a record, it's my record. It's not a selfish thought. I may work all year 'round for other people. So, finally, when I come out with my own album, it should be me with the creative help of other musicians.

  Eberhard Weber

  Years, People, Creative

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• No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done by means of them, without listening to the calumnies of selfish men against them.

  Aurangzeb

  Wise, Mean, Winning

  "Later Mughals : Volume II : 1719-1739". Book by William Irvine, "Ruqat-i-Alamgiri", 1922.

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• It is easy to love friends and sweethearts. This is selfish love. Higher love embraces enemies and all ugly, bad people. The highest love doesn't see goodness or badness at all. One should even love warmongers, bad food producers and priests.

  Michio Kushi

  People, Enemy, Ugly

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• Worship is at heart a person offered to God, claiming no rights, making no more selfish demands than a dead man does, but living fully, richly and wholly to God and by His power.

  Graham Kendrick

  Heart, Men, Rights

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• I resolve to be more patient, less selfish, cherish my friends, and in my small way help whoever needs help. I cannot conceivably influence the world's destiny, but I can make my own life more worthwhile. I can give some help to some people; that is not vital to all the world's problems and yet, I think if everyone did just that, we might see quite a world in our time!

  Gladys Taber

  Destiny, Thinking, People

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• By all means be selfish; the right way. Wish yourself well, labour at what is good for you. Destroy all that stands between you and happiness. Be all; love all; be happy; make happy. No happiness is greater.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Mean, Make Happy, Wish

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• Strange and mysterious name to give to the spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish souls? Doubt it not!

  Albert Pike

  Morning, Son, Light

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• But love is something that has to be as selfish as it is unselfish. You can't make yourself love someone because you feel like you should. Just wanting to love someone isn't enough.

  Aprilynne Pike

  Love Is, Self Love, Like You

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  Self-deprecating or arrogant, it's all selfish. Hard as it is, life's better when you spend more time on the rest of the world

  Patrick Stump

  Arrogant, World, More Time

  Twitter post from May 15, 2013

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• I think that people who don't like animals tend to be selfish, but I'm biased.

  Jessica Alba

  Animal, Thinking, People

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• The person I love would never wear fur. Fur just makes me think of shallow women who have no conscience. The fur industry belongs to a time when people were selfish beyond belief. If you were some ancient tribal cheiftain, and there was not a department store nearby 350 years ago, I'd understand. But now, we have synthetic fibers,and it's not necessary. The elitism of fur makes me wanna puke.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Thinking, Years, People

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• Not that I say,"Oh,I'm not going to associate with certain people.," but I have my world,and I only want to be around people who I feel stimulated by. I have to be honest I do have a new quest: I want to meet more vegetarians,people who are more like minded. There's something real neat about that feeling. It makes you feel so settled to know there's somebody else sitting right there,being so passionate about what I'm passionate about. I don't want to be around selfish people. I try to keep myself surrounded by deep people who will move me.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Real, Moving, People

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• .. the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory.

  David Hume

  Voice, Ethics, Morality

  David Hume (1768). “An enquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An enquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.296

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• Our thoughts are either focused on what's eternal, life-changing, and true, or lost in the details of our temporary, selfish, false beliefs.

  Craig Groeschel

  Life Changing, Details, Belief

  Craig Groeschel (2012). “Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World”, p.34, Zondervan

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• The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.

  Anthony de Mello

  Butterfly, Eggs, Eagles

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.206, Image

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• Hate nobody; love everybody. It won't cost you anything. Love never costs anything. Love is the most selfish act. It gives you so much protection, grace, and radiance. It doesn't give you any smallness or suffering. The attitude of conscious living is to love and give grace to someone worthy of your trust. Do not seek anything from people. Give love instead, and rely on God.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Attitude

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• It is of course evident that everything in one's religious life depends upon the sort of God one worships. The character of the worshiper must necessarily be molded by the character of the object worshipped. If it is a cruel and revengeful God, or a selfish and unjust God, the worshiper will be cruel, and revengeful, and selfish, and unjust, also. If it is a loving, tender, forgiving, unselfish God, the worshiper will be loving, and tender, and forgiving, and unselfish, as well.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  God, Religious, Character

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• A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer meeting, but he never translates his emotions into action. Consequently a sentimentalist is usually callous, self-centred and selfish, because the emotions he likes to have stirred do not cost him anything.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Reading, Cost

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.121, Discovery House

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• You are still young, so you think only of your own self. You do not notice the tribulations that occur all around you, to other people. Do not protest; it is true. I am not condemning you. I was as selfish as you, when I was your age. It is the custom of the young to be selfish... But someday you will understand that nobody passes through this world without suffering-no matter what you think of them and their supposed good fortune.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, People, Suffering

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• What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish as forgetful, the angry as impassioned.

  Nick Laird

  Love Is, Opposites, Knowing

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