820 Quotes About Selfishness

Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant. We become selfish when we believe that maybe tomorrow we won't have any pizza but when we know that our heart is a magical kitchen, we are always generous, and our love is completely unconditional.

If I live life as some barter system, I will in fact never have given anything away except the opportunity to really live.

Relinquishing selfish wants, one is free to allow others to travel their own paths under the will of God. (18)

In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?

In the vast majority of cases, what I ‘need’ is actually what I ‘want’ dressed in clever disguise.

One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.

We repeatedly discard the very things that we ‘need’ in the maddening pursuit of that which we ‘want.’ And if this behavior persists, in the end we will stand holding neither.

What I ‘want’ for my life is often not what I ‘need’ for my life, although I feel that I ‘need’ to talk myself into making it a ‘want.

God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.