Quotes About Selfishness

We look for love, we open our heart and we become vulnerable, just to find selfishness.

I was being selfish. I was afraid for myself, and not even thinking of you." Sitting on the bed, he took his father's hands in his. "I can do as you say—I can rise above fear. I can hear knowledge speaking, and choose to disbelieve it. I can hear the way people spread poison, and choose to ignore it. I'm ready." José looked directly into his teacher's eyes and said, "I'm with you now.

Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about "me.

If I love myself I will express that love in my interactions with you, and then I am being impeccable with the word, because that action will produce a like reaction. If I love you, then you will love me. If I insult you, you will insult me. If I have gratitude for you, you will have gratitude for me. If I'm selfish with you, you will be selfish with me. If I use the word to put a spell on you, you are going to put a spell on me.

When we go into a relationship, we become selfish because we are needy. It's all about me. We are so selfish that we want the person with whom we are sharing our life to be as needy as we are. We want "someone who needs me" in order to justify our existence, in order to feel that we have a reason to be alive. We think we are searching for love, but we are searching for "someone who needs me," someone we can control and manipulate.

That is a fact. If you don't love yourself, you don't have any opportunity to be happy. You cannot share what you do not have. If you do not love yourself, you cannot love anyone else either. But you can have a need for love, and if there's someone who needs you, that's what humans call love. That is not love. That is possessiveness, that is selfishness, that is control with no respect. Don't lie to yourself; that is not love.

La importancia personal, o el tomarse las cosas personalmente, es la expresión máxima del egoísmo, porque consideramos que todo gira a nuestro alrededor.

Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about "me." During the period of our education, or our domestication, we learn to take everything personally. We think we are responsible for everything. Me, me, me, always me!

No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.

They love their bodies. We neglected ours. They love to travel. We stayed put. They love adventure. We spent all our time at meetings. They love jazz. We were satisfied with pale imitations of folk music. They're interested in themselves. We wanted to save the world and with our messianic vision nearly destroyed it. Maybe they with their egotism will be the ones to save it.

We wanted to destroy the world. With our messianism we nearly destroyed it. Maybe they with their selfishness will save it.

It's always so attractive to be able to do good at somebody else's expense

Ego is even worse than dirt and filth because it attacks others.

Lust is raw selfishness. It's all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs.

What will a man not do when frantic with love? To what baseness will he not demean himself? What pangs will he not make others suffer, so that he may ease his selfish heart?

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared

Love's a dog in a manger.

Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

I to myself am dearer than a friend.

Hmm…now that I think about it, housecats are often coddled and petted. You don't pet me nearly enough. You must be a lax owner. How selfish of you to deprive your cat of attention.

This, explained the angel, is hell. The people do not love each other. They only want to feed themselves.

If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.

Then, as he is criminal he is selfish.