#selfish

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#always #becomes #demands #every #giving

And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away. ↗

— Peter Sotos

#blown #blown away #books #distribution #fears

The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner? ↗

— George Stephanopoulos

#clinton #compassionate #conscious #could #his

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#being #degeneration #fatty #his #man

...selflessness and bravery aren’t all that different. All your life you’ve been training to forget yourself, so when you’re in danger, it becomes your first instinct. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#instinct #selfishness #life

Boredom is for the selfish. ↗

— Patti Digh

#boredom-and-attitude #keep-learning #moving-forward #selfishness #attitude

Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow. I have no kindness for you, and know you have as little for me. I will not, therefore, take any pains upon your account; and should I labour with you upon my own account, in expectation of a return, I know I should be disappointed, and that I should in vain depend upon your gratitude. Here then I leave you to labour alone; You treat me in the same manner. The seasons change; and both of us lose our harvests for want of mutual confidence and security. ↗

— David Hume

#farming #individualism #selfishness #change

A PRIME TRUTH - MAN IS SELFISH (Name of chapter) ↗

— William J Federer

#selfish #truth #change

You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature. ↗

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

#hatred #love #selfishness #death

We tend to have a limited concept of spiritual death as saying no only to things we want or covet -- our guilty pleasures and selfish ambitions. But in reality, it means dying inwardly to whatever has control over us. The thing that really controls us may not be what we want. It may be what we fear. Fear can dominate our lives just as strongly as desire. ↗

— Nancy Pearcey

#fear #selfishness #death