#selfish

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Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.


Ouida


#selfishness #energy

Indeed this gentleman's stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of his friends, but renders him, by way of counterpoise, rather selfish and sensitive in respect of any that happen to befall himself.


Charles Dickens


#selfishness #sensitiveness #stoicism #respect

You knew what I was," he said, taking his hair back from his face, eyes wild with the will to make me believe. "You knew that my face is a lie, just pretending to be human. And you still wanted me, you could touch me, you could see what I am, the only one who knew and wanted me all the same, and you said I wasn't a --" his chest hitched. "Not a monster. I was going to tell you, and then I thought, well, I'm probably going to die in the underworld, so why can't I have this until then? I'm the stupid one; not you. I'm so sorry.


Karen Healey


#romantically-honest #unselfish #romantic

You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle and soft, there's a genuine violence softness and kindness visit on people. Sometimes self-interested is the most generous thing you can be.


Tony Kushner


#selfishness #violence

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.


Mortimer Adler


#concerned #exclusively #good #others #ourselves

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.


Honore de Balzac


#general #only #selfishness #thin #veneer

Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.


Mortimer Adler


#selfishly #sexual #truly

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.


Mortimer Adler


#benevolent #generous #love #selfless #sense

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.


Mortimer Adler


#also #give #impulse #involved #love

Don’t shave my head to make your wig of selfishness. Shave it because you care.


Jarod Kintz


#funny #selfish #wig #funny