#selfish

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The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.


Pope John Paul II


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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.


Pope Paul VI


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Of course, the idea of a six months' holiday is enough to make anyone laugh at anything, but I find that besides that I was a good deal harassed and run down, and I am glad to cut off from everything and start fresh. I feel miserably selfish about it all the time.


Richard H. Davis


#am #anyone #anything #besides #course

Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be.


Romario


To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.


Adam Smith


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I'm selfish.


Kendrick Lamar


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It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.


Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn


#because #comfortable #course #difficult #easiest

A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.


Leland Stanford


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Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.


Elizabeth Gilbert


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Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.


William Makepeace Thackeray


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